In what may be the most in-depth study yet published of a film star's body of work, Susan Hayward charts the career of Simone Signoret, one of the great Frech actresses of the ...

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a filmmaker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a ...

French National Cinema breaks new ground in the writing on French cinema, and its fresh approach will further our understanding of how France's cinema interfaces with France's ...

This excellent book analyzes key French films in their cultural context and explores their relation to literary texts and popular ideas of national history.

One of the hottest international properties to come out of the new wave of French filmmakers in the 1980s, Luc Besson is a director with a simple mission and a dazzling visual ...