"This is a rich and academically relevant collection ... that
offers an engagement with a full spectrum of disciplinary interests
... The running filmography that is established across the volume
will be a great resource to film scholars and students, and the
range of methodological approaches deployed is genuinely inspiring
in terms of its diversity, application and results." . Sue Harris,
Queen Mary University of London
" T]here is much here to inform the specialist and please the
aficionado. This is a welcome addition to the fields of reception
studies, French and British film history and culture, and
transnational film studies." . Professor Elizabeth Ezra, University
of Stirling
A series of limiting definitions have tended to delineate the
Franco-British cinematic relationship. As this collection of essays
reveals, there is much more to it than simple oppositions between
British critical esteem for the films of France and French
dismissal of 'le cinema British', or the success of Ken Loach et
al. at the French box office and the relative dearth of French
movies on British screens. In fact, there has long been a rich and
productive dialogue between these two cultures in which both their
clear differences and their shared concerns have played a vital
role. This book provides an overview of the history of these
relations from the early days of sound cinema to the present day.
The chapters, written by leading experts in the history of French,
British and European cinema, provide insights into relations
between French and British cinematic cultures at the level of
production, exhibition and distribution, reception, representation
and personnel. The book features a diverse range of studies,
including: the exhibition of French cinema in Britain in the 1930s,
contemporary 'extreme' French cinema, stars such as Annabella,
David Niven and Jane Birkin and the French Resistance on British
screens.
Lucy Mazdon is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of
Southampton. She has written widely on French cinema and television
and her publications include Encore Hollywood: Remaking French
Cinema (BFI, 2000), France on Film: Reflections on Popular French
Cinema (Wallflower, 2001) and The Contemporary Television Series
(EUP, 2005).
Catherine Wheatley is a Research Assistant at the University of
Southampton where she is working on Lucy Mazdon's AHRC funded
project on French cinema in Britain. She is the author of Michael
Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image (Berghahn Books, 2009) and
is a regular contributor to Sight and Sound.
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