Sinopsis
Since the early 1980s there has been a gradual increase in the number of people teaching and researching French cinema courses in UK universities. There are now some 45 staff members in universities in the UK alone publishing material on this subject; these and many more also teach French cinema on a regular basis. French cinema forms an integral part of many French/Modern Languages university degrees, as well as being an important component of what is now called World Cinema in Film Studies degrees, in both the UK and the USA. Surprisingly, though, there is no single volume that serves as a reasonably comprehensive background for such study.
Although there have been many histories of the French cinema, French-specific theorising on the cinema has not to our knowledge formed part of any introductory texts; 'film theory' is seen as a global phenomenon that tends to elide Frenchspecific continuities. There are guidebooks on how to study or write on film, but,again, these are not French-specific. There are no books for students outlining the different types of research in French cinema; this is confined to scattered reviews in learned journals or alluded to in a fragmentary way in scholarly tomes. Our volume is an attempt to combine all of these strands - history, theory, practice - with the more usual statistics one might expect to find in a student handbook.
Content
- History
- Theory
- Practice
- Writing about French Film
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