TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leila Wimmer
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1661-0261
TI  - Cross-Channel Perspectives
T2  - The French Reception of British Cinema
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1104266
N2  - 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.
KW  - British Horror, Ken Loach, Realism, Truffaut
LA  - English
ER  -