France in Focus: Film and National Identity

Book Overview

This volume brings together the work of leading film scholars from the UK, France and the US who assess a dominant art form's engagement with expressions of national identity at key moments in French cinematic history, from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century, through the inter-war period, the Occupation, the post-Liberation era, and the New Wave, up to the current state of the industry. The essays go against the grain in their attempts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859733689
• ISBN13: 9781859733684
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"