Grove Press paid Godard to distribute radical films on university campuses.

Evidence

Having given Godard a $25,000 advance for a never-made adaptation of Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Grove sent the filmmaker and the other member of the Dziga Vertov Group, Jean-Pierre Gorin, out with See You at Mao on an American university tour. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1562

Categorization

• XREF: Grove Press’s financing of Godard’s political films connects to the reader’s turf-wars/gentrification thesis: a commercial publisher bankrolling and distributing the avant-garde as a way of owning the counterculture.