Jacques Feyder

Gender, class and colonialism on film

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by Barry Nevin

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Jacques Feyder

Keywords

Jacques Feyder, France, sociology

Publishing date

2026 (July 21, 2026)

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Collection

French and Francophone Filmmakers

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 264 pages
5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5261-2401-2

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Book Presentation:
This is the first English-language book on Jacques Feyder, one of the Golden Age of French cinema’s most prolific directors. Although once hailed as a major filmmaker, Feyder’s reputation waned in the decades following his death, and scholars tend to underestimate his contributions to cinema. This study argues that a fuller understanding of Feyder’s style involves exploring his complex portrayals of gender, class and colonialism across his body of work, including films he directed in France, Hollywood, Germany, England and elsewhere. In doing so, the book reveals an ambitious director who took cinema in new aesthetic directions and often crafted provocative reflections on social inequality in the French Third Republic.

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