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Contempt, Beineix's DIVA, and Modernism: Video Essay

posted 12 years ago by pm85

http://www.theseventhart.org/main/videos/issue-12-diva-contempt-mepris /#.UWv85ivwJk8

A video essay on Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mepris) and Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva, and how they exemplify the modernist interest in the real vs. the classical ideal and the postmodern skepticism towards the existence of the real, respectively