To a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century through the si
The second edition of this innovative textbook brings together leading scholars to provide detailed analyses of twenty-two key films within the canon of French
This examination of France's national cinema takes its primary artefact, the feature film and discusses both popular cinema and the `avant garde' cinema that co
These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the