Cross-Channel Perspectives
The French Reception of British Cinema
Leila Wimmer author Axel Goodbody editor Wendy Everett editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verlag Peter Lang
Published:22nd Dec '08
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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.
ISBN: 9783039113606
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 450g
318 pages
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