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

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

It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation's sense of identity and self-confidence. But what do we really know about

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