Cross-Channel Perspectives

The French Reception of British Cinema

von Leila Wimmer

318 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book is the first ever full-length study of the reception of British cinema in post-war France, challenging François Truffaut’s infamous dismissal of British cinema as ‘a contradiction in terms’, a comment which has been, and still is, widely reproduced, yet has until now remained critically unexplored. A historical account, the book gathers together well-known episodes (such as Cahiers du cinéma in the 1950s) and critics (André Bazin, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard), along with original new material, and thus throws new light on a topic which, given the influential nature of French film criticism and cinephilia, continues to be at the core of film culture.

• Reihe: New Studies in European Cinema
• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Film, Kino Filmgenres
• ISBN: 9783039113606
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.12.2008
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers