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Cross-Channel Perspectives

The French Reception of British Cinema

by Leila Wimmer (Author)
©2009 Monographs 318 Pages
Series: New Studies in European Cinema, Volume 8

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
318
Publication Year
2009
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039113606
Language
English
Keywords
British Horror Ken Loach Realism Truffaut
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2009. 318 pp.

Biographical notes

Leila Wimmer (Author)

The Author: Leila Wimmer holds a Ph.D. in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick and lectures in Film Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK.

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