%0 Book %A Leila Wimmer %D 2021 %C Oxford, United Kingdom %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 1661-0261 %T Cross-Channel Perspectives %B The French Reception of British Cinema %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1104266 %X 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. %K British Horror, Ken Loach, Realism, Truffaut %G English