The Art of Directing

Michaël Abecassis is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on French linguistics and cinema. His publications include The Representation of Parisian Speech in the Cinema of the 1930s (2005) and Le Français parlé au XXIème siècle, in two volumes, with Laure Ayosso and Elodie Vialleton (2008), among others. He is the editor, with Marcelline Block, of French Cinema in Close-up: La Vie d'un acteur pour moi (2015). Marcelline Block’s publications include the Boston, Paris, Prague, Las Vegas and Marseille volumes of the World Film Locations series; Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe (2015); and the first French-to-English translation of Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit’s Propaganda Documentaries in France, 1940–1944 (2016). She also co-edited Plurilingual Perspectives in Geolinguistics (2nd edn, 2016) and The Directory of World Cinema: Belgium (2014), among others. With Michaël Abecassis, she edited French Cinema in Close-up: La Vie d'un acteur pour moi (2015). Felicity Chaplin is Lecturer in European Languages (French) at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of two books, Charlotte Gainsbourg: Transnational and Transmedia Stardom (2020) and La Parisienne in Cinema: Between Art and Life (2017) and is a contributor to the edited collections Refocus: The Films of François Ozon (2021) and Remembering Paris in Text and Film (2021).