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Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (2000)
Publisher: Continuum
> Other books on the subject of France:
Nouvelles Femmes (2025)
Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema
Mixed Feelings in France (2025)
White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy
Through a Nuclear Lens (2024)
France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima
The Cinematic Influence (2024)
Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan
Gender in French Banlieue Cinema (2024)
Intersectional Perspectives
Dir. Marzia Caporale, Claire Mouflard and Habib Zanzana
The Ethnographic Optic (2024)
Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema
Looking Beyond Neoliberalism (2024)
French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis
Reframing the European Other (2023)
Identity and Belonging in Contemporary French and German Cinema
The Art of Directing (2023)
A Concise Dictionary of France's Film Directors
Dir. Michaël Abecassis, Marcelline Block and Felicity Chaplin
French B Movies (2023)
Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood
The History of French Literature on Film (2022)
Dir. Kate Griffiths and Andrew Watts
Reframing Remembrance (2021)
Contemporary French Cinema and the Second World War
Bastards at Work (2021)
Universal Lessons on Bullying from Contemporary French Storytelling
Intermedial Dialogues (2021)
The French New Wave and the Other Arts
Cinema and Contact (2020)
The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis
French Blockbusters (2019)
Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema
Screening Youth (2019)
Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema
Dir. Romain Chareyron and Gilles Viennot
Screening the Paris Suburbs (2018)
From the Silent Era to the 1990s
Dir. Philippe Met and Derek Schilling
Films of the New French Extremity (2016)
Visceral Horror and National Identity
French Cinema (2015)
From Its Beginnings to the Present
Palimpsestic Memory (2015)
The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film
The Pedagogical Imagination (2014)
The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film
by Leon Sachs
Post-beur Cinema (2013)
North African Émigré and Maghrebi-French Filmmaking in France since 2000
by Will Higbee
Cinema and the Republic (2013)
Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France
Directory of World Cinema / France (2013)
Dir. Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael
The Beauty of the Real (2012)
What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
by Mick LaSalle
Screening Integration (2012)
Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France
by Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy
French Costume Drama of the 1950s (2010)
Fashioning Politics in Film
Past Forward (2010)
French Cinema and the Post-Colonial Heritage
À la rencontre du cinéma français (2010)
Analyse, genre, histoire
Chanteuse in the City (2010)
The Realist Singer in French Film
Unraveling French Cinema (2010)
From L'Atalante to Caché
Queering Contemporary French Popular Cinema (2009)
Images and Their Reception
The A to Z of French Cinema (2009)
The New Face of Political Cinema (2009)
Commitment in French Film since 1995
Riding the New Wave (2009)
Youth and the Rejuvenation of France After the Second World War
Reading the French New Wave (2008)
Critics, Writers and Art Cinema in France
Sapphism on Screen (2006)
Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema
French Cinema (2004)
From Its Beginnings to the Present
East-West Encounters (2003)
Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature
Didn't You Used to Be Depardieu? (2002)
Film as Cultural Marker in France and Hollywood
Cinema and the Second Sex (2001)
women's filmmaking in France in the 1980s and 1990s
by Carrie Tarr and Brigitte Rollet
May 68 in French Fiction and Film (1999)
Rethinking Society, Rethinking Representation
Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism (1996)
Perspectives from the French and Francophone Worlds
Dir. Dina Sherzer
Mists of Regret (1995)
Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film
French Film Theory and Criticism 1907-1939 (1988)
vol.1: 1907-1929 - vol. 2: 1929-1939
by Richard Abel
Through Parisian Eyes (1986)
Reflections on Contemporary French Arts and Culture
La vie est à nous (1986)
French Cinema of the Popular Front 1935-1938
Dir. Ginette Vincendeau and Keith Reader
Cinema of Paradox (1985)
French Filmmaking Under the German Occupation
> Other books related to France:
Michel Legrand (2025)
A Life in Music and Film
by Michel Legrand, Stéphane Lerouge and Sam Taylor
Subject: Others persons > Michel Legrand
Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert (2025)
Dir. Iggy Cortez and Ian Fleishman
Subject: Actor > Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance (2024)
Subject: Actor > Isabelle Huppert
Is It French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France (2024)
Dir. Mary Harrod and Raphaëlle Moine
Subject: Sociology
Transatlantic Cinephilia (2023)
Film Culture between Latin America and France, 1945–1965
Subject: General
Performative Images (2023)
A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France
by Anaïs Nony
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Bande de Filles (2023)
Girlhood Identities in Contemporary France
Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema (2023)
Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane, Mistinguett
Subject: Silent Cinema
Continental Films (2022)
French Cinema Under German Control
by Christine Leteux and Bertrand Taverneir
Subject: History of Cinema
Pepsi and the Pill (2022)
Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969
The Films of Rachid Bouchareb (2022)
Dir. Michael Gott and Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp
Subject: Director > Rachid Bouchareb
Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics (2022)
French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Isabelle Huppert (2022)
Stardom, Performance, Authorship
Dir. Darren Waldron and Nick Rees-Roberts
Subject: Actor > Isabelle Huppert
From Ciné-goûters to Screenings for Cinephilie (2022)
The Cinemas of the Instituts and the Alliances françaises
by Giusy Pisano
Subject: Sociology
The Films of Michel Gondry (2022)
Dir. Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby
Subject: Director > Michel Gondry
Totally Truffaut (2021)
23 Films for Understanding the Man and the Filmmaker
by Anne Gillain
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
Honor Among Thieves (2021)
The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville
Subject: Director > Jean-Pierre Melville
Miraculous Realism (2021)
The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord
Georges Auric (2020)
A Life in Music and Politics
by Colin Roust
Subject: Others persons > Georges Auric
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub (2020)
Objectivists in Cinema
Subject: Director > Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Revolution in Paradise (2019)
Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the Cinema of Occupied France
Subject: History of Cinema
French Literature on Screen (2019)
Dir. Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Critical Mass (2018)
Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave
by Steven Ungar
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Spectacle in Classical Cinemas (2018)
Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s
by Tom Brown
Subject: On Films > Per period
Claude Chabrol's Aesthetics of Opacity (2017)
by Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze
Subject: Director > Claude Chabrol
Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas (2017)
Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons
French and Spanish Queer Film (2016)
Audiences, Communities and Cultural Exchange
by Chris Perriam and Darren Waldron
Nationalism and the Cinema in France (2016)
Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995
by Hugo Frey
Subject: Sociology
Christophe Honoré (2015)
A Critical Introduction
by David A. Gerstner and Julien Nahmias
Subject: Director > Christophe Honoré
From Empire to the World (2015)
Migrant London and Paris in the Cinema
by Malini Guha
Subject: Sociology
Reframing Reality (2014)
The Aesthetics of the Surrealist Object in French and Czech Cinema
by Alison Frank
Subject: Theory
Open Roads, Closed Borders (2013)
The Contemporary French-Language Road Movie
Dir. Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt
Subject: Sociology
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France (2013)
Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
by Kate Griffiths and Andrew Watts
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
The Films of Louis Malle (2011)
A Critical Analysis
by Nathan C. Southern and Jacques Weissgerber
Subject: Director > Louis Malle
Neither God Nor Master (2011)
Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
by Brian Price
Subject: Director > Robert Bresson
Je t'aime... moi non plus (2010)
Franco-British Cinematic Relations
Dir. Lucy Mazdon and Catherine Wheatley
La France contemporaine à travers ses films (2010)
by Anne-Christine Rice
(in English and French)
Subject: Sociology
Cinema in an Age of Terror (2010)
North Africa, Victimization, and Colonial History
Subject: Sociology
Film Criticism as Cultural Fantasy (2010)
The Perpetual French Discovery of Australian Cinema
Subject: Film Analysis
Pierre Batcheff and Stardom in 1920s French Cinema (2009)
by Phil Powrie and Eric Rebillard
Subject: Actor > Pierre Batcheff
Entertainment Industrialised (2008)
The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890–1940
Subject: Economics
Beyond Auteurism (2008)
New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy and Spain since the 1980s
It's So French! (2007)
Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture
Subject: Sociology
The New Pornographies (2007)
Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film
by Victoria Best and Martin Crowley
Subject: Sociology
Facing the Pacific (2007)
Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
La France dans le regard des Etats-Unis (2006)
France as seen by the United States
Dir. Frédéric Monneyron and Martine Xiberras
(in French and English)
Subject: Sociology
Cinema's Conversion to Sound (2005)
Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S.
Subject: History of Cinema
Truffaut (2000)
A Biography
by Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
Cahiers du Cinéma (1992)
The 1960s New Wave, New Cinema, Reevaluating Hollywood
by Jim Hillier
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
Cahiers du Cinéma (1986)
The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave
by Jim Hillier
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
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