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'''Constance Penley on ''France/tour/détour/deux/enfants'''''

#'''Group 1:''' Penley argues, "Both the writing on the image and the different voices over it question the image rather than anchoring its meaning as is usual in television." Explain how and compare the text-over-image in ''F/t/d/d/e'' with graphics in conventional television, such as ''The Dick Cavett Show''.
#'''Group 2:''' Penley argues that Godard's use of silence in his video work is different from conventional television. Explain how and compare the use of silence in ''F/t/d/d/e'' with its use (or lack) in ''The Dick Cavett Show''.
#'''Group 3:''' Penley argues that Godard's use of interviews is different from conventional television. Explain how and compare the interview in ''F/t/d/d/e'' with the interview in ''The Dick Cavett Show''.
#'''Groups 4 and 5:''' Penley contends that Sonimage's (Godard and Miéville's production company) analysis of representation "does not extend to questioning certain received metaphorizations of the woman's body: woman as state, as machine of reproduction, as sexuality itself." That is, Sonimage is using the woman's body as a metaphor for sexuality and reproduction. We've [[TCF340/Godard and Contemporary Feminism (Discussion)|discussed Godard's use of the nude female body before]] -- in ''Vivre sa vie'' and [https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T340/BritishSounds.php ''British Sounds'']. How would you compare/contrast the nude pregnant woman in ''F/t/d/d/e'' with the nude women in ''Vivre sa vie''? Does he "formally subvert" the inherent exploitation of female nudity? ([https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T340/france/index.html See screenshots.])

==Bibliography==
*Penley, Constance. "Les Enfants de la Patrie." ''Camera Obscura'', 8-9-10, pp. 32-59. 
*Kuhn, Annette. ''Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema''. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

==External links==
*[https://vimeo.com/347836977 ''France/tour/détour/deux/enfants'' video]
*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T340/france/index.html ''France/tour/détour/deux/enfants'' frame captures]
*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Classes/Jbutler/T340/LetterToJane.php#softandhard ''Soft and Hard'' frame grabs]
*[https://vimeo.com/345061572 Video clip of the last shot of ''Soft and Hard'']
*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T340/SoftAndHard_LastShot/index.htm Frame grabs from the last shot of ''Soft and Hard'']
*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T340/Contempt/index.htm Frame grabs from first shot of Godard's ''Contempt'']
*[https://tvcrit.org/Classes/Jbutler/T577/Godard_Criticism_Brecht.php Godard and Brecht: Godard's Criticism, ''Vivre sa Vie'' & ''Breathless'']

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