Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films such as departures and returns, the chase, the

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history

This work identifies patterns in the fields of character, narrative, and setting in the French cinema of the early sound period.

DIVThe different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present./div

How should we understand film authorship in an era when the idea of the solitary and sovereign auteur has come under attack, with critics proclaiming the death