French Cinema in Close-Up

Dr Michael Abecassis (DEA Grenoble; D.Lang St Andrews) is a Senior Instructor in French and a College Lecturer at the University of Oxford. His academic career includes a D.Lang from the University of St Andrews in 2000, in the field of language variation and change in French, concentrating on the Parisian vernacular of 1930s French cinema. Commenced tutoring French in 1988 in the French Department of Dundee University, and subsequently employed by several British universities (Abertay, Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh, St Andrews, OxfordBrookes). In 1999, Dr Abecassis was appointed both as French Instructor (working mostly in Oxford Language Teaching Centre), and as College Lecturer at the University of Oxford (Christ Church, University, and Wadham Colleges). Marcelline Block was graduated with a BA from Harvard (magna cum laude) in the History and Literature of France and England and received Certificates in French and Swedish languages and literatures. She received an MA in French from Princeton as well as a Graduate Certificate in the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality. Currently living in New York, she has taught courses in several departments at Princeton since 2003, including the Departments of French and Italian; the Department of English; the Department of Comparative Literature; the Department of Politics; the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies [formerly known as the Program in the Study of Women and Gender]; and the Program in Visual Art. Her intellectual interests are 20th century French literature, film theory and women's studies, as well as feminist, psychoanalytic, and trauma theories. She has both French and American citizenship.

CONTENTS [names entered without accents on BookData]: FOREWORD; ISABELLE ADJANI (1955 - ), ANOUK AIMEE (1932 - ) [Francoise Sorya Dreyfus], MATHIEU AMALRIC (1965 - ), RICHARD ANCONINA (1953 - ), FANNY ARDANT (1949 - ), PIERRE ARDITI (1944 - ), NIELS ARESTRUP (1949 - ), ARLETTY (1898 - 1992) [Leonie Bathiat], ANTONIN ARTAUD (1896 - 1948), ARIANE ASCARIDE (1954 - ), STEPHANE AUDRAN (1932 - ) [Colette Suzanne Dacheville], DANIEL AUTEUIL (1950 - ), SABINE AZEMA (1949 - ), CHARLES AZNAVOUR (1924 - ) [Charles Aznaourian], JEAN-PIERRE BACRI (1951 - ), EDOUARD BAER (1966 - ), JOSIANE BALASKO (1950 - ) [Josiane Balaskovic], JEAN-FRANCOIS BALMER (1946 - ), BRIGITTE BARDOT (1934 - ), JEAN-LOUIS BARRAULT (1910 - 1994), HARRY BAUR (1880 - 1943), NATHALIE BAYE (1948 - ), EMMANUELLE BEART (1963 - ) [Emmanuelle Behart-Hasson], LEILA BEKHTI (1984 - ), JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO (1933 - ), FRANCOIS BERLEAND (1952 - ), SARAH BERNHARDT (1844 - 1923) [Henriette-Rosine Bernard], JULES BERRY (1883 - 1951) [Marie Louis Jules Paufichet], RICHARD BERRY (1950 - ), JULIETTE BINOCHE (1964 - ), MICHEL BLANC (1952 - ), FRANCIS BLANCHE (1921 - 1974), BERNARD BLIER (1916 - 1989), RICHARD BOHRINGER (1941 - ), ROMANE BOHRINGER (1973 - ), SANDRINE BONNAIRE (1967 - ), DANY BOON (1966 - ) [Daniel Hamidou], MICHEL BOUJENAH (1952 - ), CAROLE BOUQUET (1957 - ), MICHEL BOUQUET (1925 - ), BOURVIL (1917 - 1970) [Andre Raimbourg], CHARLES BOYER (1899 - 1978), MARCEL BOZZUFFI (1928 - 1988), CLAUDE BRASSEUR (1936 - ), PIERRE BRASSEUR (1905 - 1972) [Pierre-Albert Espinasse], JACQUES BREL (1929 - 1978), JEAN-CLAUDE BRIALY (1933 - 2007), GUILLAUME CANET (1973 - ), JULIEN CARETTE (1897 - 1966), JEAN CARMET (1920 - 1994), JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIERE (1931 - ), MARIA CASARES (1922 - 1996) [Maria Victoria Casares Perez], VINCENT CASSEL (1966 - ) [Vincent Crochon], ALAIN CHABAT (1958 - ), MAURICE CHEVALIER (1888 - 1972), CHRISTIAN CLAVIER (1952 - ), FRANCOIS CLUZET (1955 - ), JEAN COCTEAU (1889 - 1963), COLUCHE (1944 - 1986) [Michel Gerard Joseph Colucci], CLOVIS CORNILLAC (1967 - ), MARION COTILLARD (1975 - ), DARRY COWL (1925 - 2006) [Andre Darricau], MARCEL DALIO (1900 - 1983) [Marcel Blauschild], BEATRICE DALLE (1964 - ) [Beatrice Cabarrou], GERARD DARMON (1948 - ), DANIELLE DARRIEUX (1917 - ), JEAN-PIERRE DARROUSSIN (1953 - ), JAMEL DEBBOUZE (1975 - ), CECILE DE FRANCE (1975 - ), LOUIS DE FUNES (1914 - 1983) [Louis de Funes de Galarza], ALAIN DELON (1935 - ), JULIE DELPY (1969 - ), CATHERINE DENEUVE (1943 - ) [Catherine Dorleac], CHARLES DENNER (1926 - 1995), GERARD DEPARDIEU (1948 - ), JULIE DEPARDIEU (1973 - ), EMMANUELLE DEVOS (1964 - ), PATRICK DEWAERE (1947 - 1982) [Patrick Bourdeaux], JEAN-CLAUDE DREYFUS (1946 - ), MARIE DUBAS (1884 - 1972), JEAN DUJARDIN (1972 - ), ALBERT DUPONTEL (1964 - ), ROMAIN DURIS (1974 - ) ANDRE DUSSOLLIER (1946 - ), GAD ELMALEH (1971 - ), FERNANDEL (1903 - 1971) [Fernand Joseph Desire Contandin], EDWIGE FEUILLERE (1907 - 1998) [Edwige Louise Caroline Cunatti], BRIGITTE FOSSEY (1946 - ), FREHEL (1891 - 1951) [Marguerite Boulc'h], PIERRE FRESNAY (1897 - 1975) [Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach], CATHERINE FROT (1956 - ), JEAN GABIN (1904 - 1976) [Jean Gabin Alexis Moncorge], CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (1971 - ), MICHEL GALABRU (1922 - ), NICOLE GARCIA (1946 - ), MARIE GILLAIN (1975 - ), ANNIE GIRARDOT (1931 - 2011), JUDITH GODRECHE (1972 - ) [Judith Goldreich], EVA GREEN (1980 - ), SACHA GUITRY (1885 - 1957), JOHNNY HALLYDAY (1943 - ) [Jean-Philippe Smet], MARINA HANDS (1975 - ), ISABELLE HUPPERT (1953 - ), AGNES JAOUI (1964 - ), LOUIS JOUVET (1887 - 1951), GERARD JUGNOT (1951 - ), ELIE KAKOU (1960 - 1999) [Alain Kakou], ANNA KARINA (1940 - ) [Hanne Karin Bayer], SANDRINE KIBERLAIN (1968 - ) [Sandrine Kiberlajn], BERNADETTE LAFONT (1938 - 2013), CHRISTOPHE LAMBERT (1957 - ), JEAN-PIERRE LEAUD (1944 - ), MADELEINE LEBEAU (1923 - ), FERNAND LEDOUX (1897 - 1993), VIRGINIE LEDOYEN (1976 - ) [Virginie Fernandez], VALERIE LEMERCIER (1964 - ), JEAN LE POULAIN (1924 - 1988), ROBERT LE VIGAN (1900 - 1972) [Robert Coquillaud], THIERRY LHERMITTE (1952 - ), VINCENT LINDON (1959 - ), MICHAEL LONSDALE (1931 - ), FABRICE LUCHINI (1951 - ) [Robert Luchini], BENOIT MAGIMEL (1974 - ), JEAN MARAIS (1913 - 1998), SOPHIE MARCEAU (1966 - ) [Sophie Daniele Sylvie Maupu], JEAN-PIERRE MARIELLE (1932 - ), ROXANE MESQUIDA (1981 - ), PAUL MEURISSE (1912 - 1979), GERARD MEYLAN (1952 - ), MIOU-MIOU (1950 - ) [Sylvette Herry], EDDY MITCHELL (1942 - ) [Claude Moine], YVES MONTAND (1921 - 1991) [Ivo Livi], JEANNE MOREAU (1928 - ), YOLANDE MOREAU (1953 - ), FRANCOIS MOREL (1959 - ), MICHELE MORGAN (1920 - ) [Simone Roussel], PHILIPPE NOIRET (1930 - 2006), VANESSA PARADIS (1972 - ), GERARD PHILIPE (1922 - 1959) [Gerard Philip], EDITH PIAF (1915 - 1963) [Edith Giovanna Gassion], JEAN PIAT (1924 - ), MICHEL PICCOLI (1925 - ), DENIS PODALYDES (1963 - ), BENOIT POELVOORDE (1964 - ), JEAN POIRET (1926 - 1992) [Jean Gustave Poire], ALBERT PREJEAN (1894 - 1979), RAIMU (1883 - 1946) [Jules Auguste Cesar Muraire], SERGE REGGIANI (1922 - 2004), JEAN RENO (1948 - ) [Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jimenez], PIERRE RICHARD (1934 - ) [Pierre Defays], EMMANUELLE RIVA (1927 - ) [Paulette Riva], JEAN ROCHEFORT (1930 - ), VIVIANE ROMANCE (1912 - 1991), [Pauline Arlette Ortmans], LUDIVINE SAGNIER (1979 - ), EDITH SCOB (1937 - ) [Edith Helena Vladimirovna Scobeltzine], JEAN SEBERG (1938 - 1979), EMMANUELLE SEIGNER (1966 - ), MATHILDE SEIGNER (1968 - ), MICHEL SERRAULT (1928 - 2007), DELPHINE SEYRIG (1932 - 1990), SIMONE SIGNORET (1921 - 1985) [Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker], MICHEL SIMON (1895 - 1975), SIMONE SIMON (1910 - 2005), JACQUES TATI (1907 - 1982), [Jacques Tatischeff], AUDREY TAUTOU (1976 - ), SYLVIE TESTUD (1971 - ), JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT (1930 - ), CHARLES VANEL (1892 - 1989), LINO VENTURA (1919 - 1987), BORIS VIAN (1920 - 1959), JACQUES VILLERET (1951 - 2005) [Mohammed Boufroura], JACQUES WEBER (1949 - ), LAMBERT WILSON (1958 - ), ELSA ZYLBERSTEIN (1968 - ); COMPREHENSIVE INDEX OF 2,200 FILM TITLES; THE EDITORS AND ARTISTS; THE 67 INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTORS.