Product Description: Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films such as departures and returns, the chase, the escape, nomadic wandering, interior voyages, the unlikely travel, rituals, pilgrimages, migrants' narratives and emergencies, women's travel, and healing narratives...read more

Product Description: This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of "auteur cinema" and "popular cinema." Their work is contextualized within this timely investigation into the shifting relationship between the privileged status of the auteur and questions of genre, gender, and cinematic production in France today...read more

Product Description: This book explores the relationship between film and the Holocaust in France: how has film changed the way that this traumatic event has been inscribed in French cultural memory? And what can these representations tell us about how we think of and understand the traumas of history...read more

An important reexamination of early film history, translated from the French for the first time.

Product Description: Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever since the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the adoption of the term auteur by Andrew Sarris...read more

Because she does exactly as she is told, Amelia Bedelia is fired from one job after another.

Because she does exactly as she is told, Amelia Bedelia is fired from one job after another. (view table of contents)