Studies in French Cinema looks at the development of French screen studies in the United Kingdom over the past twenty years and the ways in which innovative scholarship in the UK has helped shape the field in English- and French-speaking universities. This seminal text is also a tribute to six key figures within the field who have been leaders in research and teaching of French cinema: Jill Forbes, Susan Hayward, Phil Powrie, Keith Reader, Carrie Tarr, and Ginette Vincendeau.

Covering a wide range of key films-contemporary and historical, popular and auteur-the volume provides an invaluable overview for students and scholars of the state of French cinema, and French film studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Will Higbee is a senior lecturer in film studies and co-director of the Centre for Research in Film Studies at University of Exeter. He is the author of Matthieu Kassovitz.

Sarah Leahy is a senior lecturer in French and film at Newcastle University. She is the author of Casque d'or.

Will Higbee and Sarah Leahy are associate editors of Studies in French Cinema.

Reviews

We find, here, an overview of French cinema from the 1930s to the early twenty-first century that offers a complex and multilayered vision of its field of study, which draws on questions of gender, nation, sexuality, community, and identity. Inevitably, while each of these articles raises fundamental questions that remain relevant to those researching and teaching French Film studies, the dialogue that emerges through the inclusion of the six pieces together is particularly thought provoking.

-- Cristina Johnston, Contemporary French Civilization



Book Information
ISBN 9781841503233
Author Will Higbee
Format Paperback
Page Count 396
Imprint Intellect Books
Publisher Intellect Books
Weight(grams) 635g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 21mm