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Luc Besson by Susan Hayward
SciFier: £22.99Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film... -
Diane Kurys by Carrie Tarr
SciFier: £22.99This is the first book written on Diane Kurys. It is essential for study of women filmmakers in France/Europe. An original and concise reading of Kurys' work.About the AuthorCarrie Tarr is Senior... -
Agnes Varda by Alison Smith
SciFier: £22.99The first introduction in English devoted wholly to Varda and aimed at a general and student audience. Places Varda's major films in the context of her whole oeuvre and follows the development of... -
Francois Truffaut by Diana Holmes
SciFier: £22.99First in a series designed to situate and explain the films of French directors. A concise, accessible and original reading of Truffaut's films. A timely evaluation of the films of a popular... -
Marguerite Duras by Renate Gunther
SciFier: £22.99The first book in English to deal exclusively with Duras' cinema, including such films as India Song, Le Camion, and Nathalie Granger. Provides a lucid and stimulating introduction to her films,... -
Claude Chabrol by Guy Austin
SciFier: £22.99This is the first book-length study in English on Chabrol since 1970. Chabrol has always been a neglected figure in the French New Wave but has recently been declared 'possibly the greatest living... -
Georges Melies by Elizabeth Ezra
SciFier: £22.99Before the turn of the twentieth century, before the nickelodeon, even before the first cinemas, Georges Melies began making movies.. Directing, editing, producing, designing, and starring in over... -
Patrice Leconte by Lisa Downing
SciFier: £22.99Lisa Downing's comprehensive study of the films of Patrice Leconte traces lines of continuity and revision through a body of apparently disparate films whose "messages" often appear both... -
Robert GueDiguian Joseph Mai 9780719096471
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guediguian, director of Marius et Jeannette (1997) and other popular auteurist films, can... -
Robert Bresson Keith Reader 9780719053665
SciFier: £22.99This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear... -
Bertrand Blier by Sue Harris
SciFier: £22.99The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and... -
Catherine Breillat Douglas Keesey 9780719085628
SciFier: £22.99This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur! (Fat Girl), Anatomy of Hell and The Last Mistress. This volume... -
Catherine Breillat Douglas Keesey 9780719075308
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur! (Fat Girl), Anatomy of Hell and most recently, The Last Mistress... -
Jean Renoir by Martin O'Shaughnessy
SciFier: £22.99Accessible and original analysis of all Jean Renoir's sound films, including those he made in Hollywood - this is the first major study to appear for a number of years and brings new light on some of... -
Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet
SciFier: £22.99Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been... -
Jean Vigo by Michael Temple
SciFier: £22.99Jean Vigo is one of the legendary figures of world cinema, whose films L'Atalante and Zero de conduite still inspire young audiences today.Film historian Michael Temple explores Vigo's intense career... -
Queer Cinema in Contemporary France: Five Directors Todd Reeser 9781526141064
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sebastien Lifshitz and Celine Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century... -
Jean-Jacques Beineix by Philip Powrie
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16This volume is the first to examine, in either French or English, the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix, often seen as the best example of the 1980s cinema du look, with cult films, such as Diva and... -
Eric Rohmer by Derek Schilling
SciFier: £22.99Few filmmakers have taken the principle of the 'talking picture' so far as Eric Rohmer, the internationally reknowned director of the Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons... -
Jean-Luc Godard by Douglas Morrey
SciFier: £22.32This volume offers a new interpretation of one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema. It is the first book to cover the whole of Godard's career, from the French New Wave to the... -
Chantal Akerman Marion Schmid 9780719077166
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75Chantal Akerman is widely acclaimed as one of the most original and important directors working in Europe today. A towering figure in women's and feminist film-making, she has produced a diverse and... -
Chantal Akerman Marion Schmid 9781526116864
SciFier: £22.99Chantal Akerman is widely acclaimed as one of cinema's boldest visionaries. A towering figure in women's and feminist film-making, she produced a diverse and intensely personal body of work ranging... -
FrancOis Ozon Andrew Asibong 9781784992835
SciFier: £22.99Available in paperback for the first time, this is a full-length study of the films of Francois Ozon, director of such diverse films as 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, 5x2 and Les amants criminels. Andrew... -
Jean Cocteau by James S. Williams
SciFier: £22.99This is a comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema. It is the first major study in English to appear for over forty years and casts new light... -
Georges Franju Kate Ince 9780719068287
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75'Georges Franju' is the fullest study to date of this little-known French director, the co-founder of the Cinematheque francaise, and the first book on him in English since 1967. Born in 1912, but... -
Queer Cinema in Contemporary France: Five Directors Todd Reeser 9781526182388
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sebastien Lifshitz and Celine Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century... -
Five Directors by Kate Ince
SciFier: £22.99Auteurism - the idea that a director of a film is its source of meaning and should retain creative control over the finished product - has been one of film studies' most important paradigms ever... -
Negotiating the Auteur by Julia Dobson
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £62.75This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work... -
Georges Franju Kate Ince 9780719068294
SciFier: £22.99'Georges Franju' is the fullest study to date of this little-known French director, the co-founder of the Cinematheque francaise, and the first book on him in English since 1967. Born in 1912, but... -
Alain Resnais by Emma Wilson
SciFier: £22.99Alain Resnais, director of 'Hiroshima mon amour' (1959) and 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating... -
Robert GueDiguian Joseph Mai 9781526163974
SciFier: £22.99Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guediguian is the result of one of the most original and coherent projects in... -
Leos Carax by Fergus Daly
SciFier: £22.99The first book in any language to study the films of this enfant terrible of contemporary French cinema, best known for his film Les Amants du Pont Neuf. Examines key ingredients in the worlds of... -
Jacques Audiard by Gemma King
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Fragile yet powerful, macho yet transgressive, Jacques Audiard's films portray disabled, marginalised or otherwise non-normative bodies in constant states of crisis and transformation. Jacques... -
Coline Serreau by Brigitte Rollet
SciFier: £19.16Coline Serreau became famous in 1985 when her third film, Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Baby), the most successful French film of the 1980s. She was already known in France for her... -
Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £76.99Described by Giles Deleuze as 'one of the greatest modern auteurs', Philippe Garrel is widely acknowledged as the most significant filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave. His deeply... -
Marcel Carne Jonathan Driskell 9780719079979
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carne, one of the great directors of classical French cinema and the key figure behind the poetic realist film movement of... -
Chris Marker by Sarah Cooper
SciFier: £22.99Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He... -
Alain Robbe-Grillet John Phillips 9781784991081
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £19.16Placing Robbe-Grillet's filmic oeuvre in the related contexts of both his novelistic work and the different historical and cultural periods in which his films were made, from the early 1960s to the... -
Marcel Carne Jonathan Driskell 9781784992859
SciFier: £22.99Newly available in paperback, this study provides a scholarly yet accessible account of the work of Marcel Carne, one of the great directors of classical French cinema and the key figure behind the... -
Julien Duvivier Ben McCann 9780719091148
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £62.75This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers. It provides new contextual and analytical readings of his films...