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The Companion to French Cinema
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Invaluable A-Z reference guide to past and present French Cinema.
Essential reading for students and followers of French film, The Companion to French Cinema is a concise and authoritative work of reference offering comprehensive coverage of French cinema through the entire century of its development. Arranged in an accessible A-Z format, it offers key information and insights into the richness and variety of French cinema. An historical overview of French cinema is followed by 200 entries on film actors, directors, producers, technicians, major institutions, critics, festivals, film forms, genres and movements.
The Companion also examines French cinema's European context and includes statistical data and a bibliography.
Essential reading for students and followers of French film, The Companion to French Cinema is a concise and authoritative work of reference offering comprehensive coverage of French cinema through the entire century of its development. Arranged in an accessible A-Z format, it offers key information and insights into the richness and variety of French cinema. An historical overview of French cinema is followed by 200 entries on film actors, directors, producers, technicians, major institutions, critics, festivals, film forms, genres and movements.
The Companion also examines French cinema's European context and includes statistical data and a bibliography.
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202 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1996
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202 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 1996 by UNKNO
- ISBN
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9780304341573
- ASIN
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0304341576
- Language
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English
About the author
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Ginette Vincendeau is a French-born British-based academic who is a Professor of Film Studies at King's College London.[1]
Vincendeau was educated at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, gaining a degree in English and at the University of East Anglia, where she completed a doctorate in Film Studies. Before assuming her post at King's, Vincendeau was Professor of Film Studies at Warwick University.
A regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine, she is the editor of The Encyclopedia of European Cinema (Cassell/BFI, 1995) and biographer of director Jean-Pierre Melville.[2]
Ginette Vincendeau's research interests are in French cinema, especially popular genres (thriller, film noir, heritage, comedy) and stars, as well as European cinema. She is also interested in issues of film history, national identity, trans-national cinema and women's cinema. She is currently completing a book on the cinematic representation of the South of France, writing a book on Brigitte Bardot and co-editing a book on Jean Renoir.
Vincendeau was educated at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, gaining a degree in English and at the University of East Anglia, where she completed a doctorate in Film Studies. Before assuming her post at King's, Vincendeau was Professor of Film Studies at Warwick University.
A regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine, she is the editor of The Encyclopedia of European Cinema (Cassell/BFI, 1995) and biographer of director Jean-Pierre Melville.[2]
Ginette Vincendeau's research interests are in French cinema, especially popular genres (thriller, film noir, heritage, comedy) and stars, as well as European cinema. She is also interested in issues of film history, national identity, trans-national cinema and women's cinema. She is currently completing a book on the cinematic representation of the South of France, writing a book on Brigitte Bardot and co-editing a book on Jean Renoir.
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