An in-depth look at some of the best and most influential French films of all time, The Cinema of France contains 24 essays, each on an individual film. The boo

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

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

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

French film in the 1980s might have lacked the invention of the New Wave but gritty police thrillers and nostalgic costume-dramas such as Jean de Florette and M