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French Film in Britain - Sex, Art and Cinephilia

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First study of French cinema in the British context.


Rethinking of French cinema which considers the ways in which it is transformed as it moves outside France.


History of the place for 'Continental' and 'specialist' cinema in Britain.


Draws extensively on archival sources to produce a unique history.

List of contents










List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Advent of Sound, A Changing Film Culture (1925-39)

Chapter 2. Cinema Goes to War (1939-1950)

Chapter 3. 'Saucy and Naughty and Witty and Chic': Can French Films Fill the Gap? (1950-1959)

Chapter 4. The French New Wave on British Shores (1959-1970)

Chapter 5. 'A New Low in French Films': Changing Perceptions of French Cinema (1970-1982)

Chapter 6. Video Saved the French Film? (1982-2002)

Conclusion

Appendices

Notes on Contributors

Index


About the author


Lucy Mazdon is Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education at the University of Hull. Her publications include Encore Hollywood: Remaking French Cinema (BFI, 2000), France on Film: Reflections on Popular French Cinema (Wallflower, 2001), (with Mike Hammond) The Contemporary Television Series, (EUP, 2005) and (with Catherine Wheatley) Je t’aime, moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations (Berghahn Books, 2010).

Catherine Wheatley is Lecturer in Film Studies at Kings College London. She is the author of Michael Haneke’s Cinema: The Ethic of the Image (Berghahn Books, 2009) and a BFI guide to Haneke’s Hidden, and editor (with Lucy Mazdon) of Je t’aime, moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations (Berghahn Books, 2010). She regularly contributes to Sight and Sound.

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