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Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzots achievement, situating his life and work in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed analysis of his major films.

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Jacques Audiard is the first book on one of the most important French directors working today. Focusing on the representation of the physical body, French society and broader transnational contexts, it reveals how Audiards cinema occupies a space both within and beyond the imaginary of French cinema.

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The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language. -- .

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A complete survey - the first in English - of Jacques Rivette's sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day. -- .

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A complete survey - the first in English - of Jacques Rivette's sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day. -- .

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A comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema. The first major study in English for over forty years. Casts new light on Cocteau's most celebrated films as well as the lesser known ones. -- .

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An analysis of all Jean Renoir's sound films, including those he made in Hollywood. Giving an account of critical debates concerning Renoir, and focusing on areas such as gender, nation and ethnicity, the book asks us to rethink our understanding of Renoir's political commitment.

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Film historian Michael Temple explores the intense career of Jean Vigo, one of the legendary figures of world cinema, and asks why he has had such a long-lasting impact on film culture around the world. -- .

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This volume offers a new interpretation of the whole of Godard's career in cinema. Drawing examples from all periods of Godard's filmmaking, it examines the parallels between the director's innovative approach to film form and wider developments in French culture and thought since 1950. -- .

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Duvivier was a giant of classic French cinema with a career spanning key moments of French film history. This analysis goes beyond its historical range to engage with key debates in film studies: notably auteurism, stardom and questions of the national. -- .

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The first book-length study of Cantets work in English. It explores his unique working method, and discusses his very particular way of constructing films at the uneasy interface of the individual, the group and the broader social context.

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The first book-length study of Cantet's work in English. It explores his unique working 'method,' and discusses his very particular way of constructing films at the uneasy interface of the individual, the group and the broader social context. -- .

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A study of the "enfant terrible" of French cinema. The ingredients and influences of Carax's films (including "Les Amants du Pont Neuf" and "Pola X") are examined: Paris, pop music, flanerie, amour fou, mannerist and neo-baroque aesthetics, "Nouvelle Vague" and contemporary naturalist cinema.

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This book analyses one of France's most controversial directors. It discusses Louis Malle's treatment of topics such as fascism, incest, child prostitution and the Holocaust. It is the first work published on the director in the English Language. -- .

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Luc Besson is considered one of the hottest international properties to emerge from the new wave of French film directors in the 1980s. This is a study of Besson's film-making career to date, placing the films within their socio-historical and political context.

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This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general. -- .

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First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director. -- .

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Mathieu Kassovitz is arguably the most important filmmaker to have emerged from French cinema in the past two decades. As a director, his work often engages with highly controversial socio-political issues whilst still managing to attract and connect with a popular audience - and, above all, with a youth audience. He is also one of the few contempo

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One of the most gifted French directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Rebert Bresson. This is the first book-length study of his work in English. -- .

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Lisa Downing's comprehensive study of the films of Patrice Leconte traces lines of continuity and revision through a body of apparently disparate films whose "messages" often appear both contradictory and controversial. -- .

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Described by Deleuze as 'one of the greatest modern auteurs', Philippe Garrel is perhaps the most significant filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave. This study offers an overview of his work, exploring its intersections with avant-gardes including the Situationists, Surrealism, Arte Povera and the American Underground. -- .

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Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across five French directors careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with international release.

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Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across five French directors careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with international release.

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An introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, a respected and acclaimed director in the history of cinema. His films are considered in chronological order, using a perspective that draws variously on spectator theory, Catholic mysticism, gender theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.