Directory of World Cinema: France

Directory of World Cinema: FranceThis volume addresses the great directors and key artistic movements of France, but also ventures beyond these films and figures by examining many neglected but intriguing French films. Essays explore stylistic elements, cultural contexts and various conceptions of cinema in France. The book also includes film reviews illustrated by screenshots.

This collection charts three projects by performers who generate autobiographical writing by walking through inspirational landscapes

How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces

and site-specific performance

An essential companion to a fascinating

Marc James Léger presents Žižek-influenced studies of films made by the most influential filmmakers of our time

More Drama

Justin Alastai–the infamous and dastardly Duke of Avon–is delivered a stroke of serendipity in the form of a disheveled denarian

This groundbreaking volume addresses Cronenberg’s narrative structures and his unique conception of auteurism

preudent regulation

In films made beyond the island as well as those created by local cineastes

groundbreaking responses within and between those structures

Unique in its approach to translation