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"It's Not Blood, It's Red": Color as Category, Color as Sensation in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris, Pierrot Le Fou, Weekend, and Passion
- Criticism
- Wayne State University Press
- Volume 61, Number 2, Spring 2019
- pp. 245-270
- 10.1353/crt.2019.a730038
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Abstract:
Through a close Deleuzian reading of Le Mépris, Pierrot le Fou, Weekend, and Passion, this essay explores Jean-Luc Godard's use of color as the vehicle for a nomadic ballade/ballad (trans. excursion or road trip/song and dance), categorized by a weakness of motor-linkages that is capable of releasing huge forces of disintegration. Color thus acts as a powerful form of deterritorialization and re-territorialization, creating new conjunctions between and across genres and images, forming new categories in the interstices between series. The result is a logic of sensation that induces a heteroglossia of potential subjectivities, whereby the body is always its own other, always in search of the next series that will make it manifest as something incommensurable, as pure sensation.