Jacques Feyder - Gender, Class and Colonialism on Film

This is the first English-language book on Jacques Feyder, one of the Golden Age of French cinema's most prolific directors. Although once hailed as a major filmmaker, Feyder's reputation waned in the decades following his death, and scholars tend to underestimate his contributions to cinema. This study argues that a fuller understanding of Feyder's style involves exploring his provocative portrayals of gender, class and colonialism across his body of work, including films he directed in France, Hollywood, Germany, England and elsewhere. In doing so, the book reveals an ambitious director who took cinema in new aesthetic directions and often crafted provocative reflections on social inequalities in French society.

About the author

Barry Nevin is a Lecturer in French at Technological University Dublin

Product details

• Authors: Nevin Barry
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2026
• EAN: 9781526124012
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2401-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Illustrations: 28 black & white illustrations
• Series: French and Francophone Filmmakers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; France, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Film Theory & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism, Film Guides & Reviews