A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema (eBook)

Alistair Fox is Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago. His books include Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (2011), New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past (2011), and an English edition and translation of Anne Gillain's François Truffaut: The Lost Secret (2013). Michel Marie is Professor Emeritus at l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. His publications include The French New Wave: An Artistic School (1998, translated into English in 2002), Aesthetics of Film (with Jacques Aumont and Alain Bergala, 1983, translated into English in 2002), and Les Grands Pervers au cinéma (2009). Raphaëlle Moine is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Her publications include Cinema Genre (2002; translated into English in 2008), Remakes: les films Français à Hollywood (2007), and Les Femmes d'action au cinéma (2010). Hilary Radner is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago. Her publications include Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture (2011) and Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Culture (2011).

"The Companion is divided into five parts with 27 chapters or essays, newly written, from different hands. The academics involved are from the UK, the USA, New Zealand and nearly half from France. There is a list of all the films cited in the volume (18 pages) and an extensive bibliography (24 pages), as well as an index." (Reference Reviews 2016)

"An authoritative and comprehensive resource for the study
of French cinema today. The editors have brought together an
impressive international group of scholars who discuss every aspect
of contemporary cinema in France: industrial, economic, historical,
political and aesthetic. Cinema is considered in the broadest
sense, from popular genre filmmaking to art cinema. A Companion
to Contemporary French Cinema is certain to be indispensable
for both students and scholars."

Barry Keith Grant, Brock University

"Since Lumière and Méliès, the French have
had a legitimate claim to being the first nation of cinema.
This anthology renews, if not that claim, then its corollary: that
French film scholarship is unrivalled. A superlative roster
of researchers has been recruited here to dig into, not just to
survey, the vast fields of France's cinematic presence in the
world today."

Dudley Andrew, Yale University

"A labor of love, the fruit of scholarly expertise, this
ambitious anthology offers multiple reasons to shout 'vive le
cinéma français!' Contemplating hundreds of movies
released between 1990 and 2013, A Companion to Contemporary
French Cinema fills a gap in existing scholarship. For anyone
who appreciates French film, it is a must read."

Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee