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Provides an introduction to French cinema for American college students. This book includes the history of the origins of French film, an explanation of how to analyze a film, a lexicon of French cinema terms, and an analysis of seventeen major masterpieces of French filmmaking, supplemented by a study guide of each film.

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This bookoffers a detailed look at recent French cinema through its analyses of twenty notable and representative French films that have appeared since 1980. Sure to delight Anglophone fans of French film, it can be used with equal success in English-language courses and, when paired with its companion volume, dual-language ones.

(Paperback)

In English, this text is an introduction to French cinema and includes the history of the origins of French film, an explanation of how to analyze a film, a lexicon of French cinema terms, and an analysis of major masterpieces of French filmmaking.

(Paperback)

Through its analyses of twenty notable and representative French films that have appeared since 1980, Le Cinma franais contemporain: Manuel de classe offers an eagle-eyed view of recent French cinema that will delight advanced students of French as well as Francophone students of French film.