Francois Truffaut - None

Informationen zum Autor Diana Holmes is Professor of French at Keele University Robert Ingram is Associate Dean in the School of Languages and European Studies at the University of Wolverhampton Klappentext First in a series designed to situate and explain the films of French directors. A concise, accessible and original reading of Truffaut's films. A timely evaluation of the films of a popular director whose work features on most A-level French syllabuses and on the majority of University French Studies programmes both in the UK and the USA . Zusammenfassung After making an initial impact with his first film "Les 400 Coups"! the French film director Francois Truffaut went on to make 23 films in 26 years. This appraisal of his work provides a socio-political contextualization! and gives an overview of his films and film-making methods. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceLes Mistons: an introduction1. The Context: Cinema Saved my Life2. A Career in Cinema3. The Genre Films4. Magic Mothers: The Sexual Politics of Truffaut's Films5. Where is the Father? Masculinity and Authorship6. The Definitif and the Provisoire (The Absolute v. the Provisional)FilmographyBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Holmes, Diana Holmes, Diana Ingram Holmes, Robert Ingram
• Assisted by: Diana Holmes (Editor), Robert Ingram (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.1998
• EAN: 9780719045547
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-4554-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: French Film Directors (Paperba
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV