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This revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.
About the Author:
Susan Hayward is Professor of French in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on French film and gender and sexuality in film. Her most recent publication is Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign (Continuum, 2003)
See the publisher website: Routledge
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Fashioning Politics in Film
The Films of Luc Besson (2007)
Master of Spectacle
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Mixed Feelings in France (2025)
White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy
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Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema
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Rule Breaking Children and Teenagers in French Cinema
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