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First 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 director whose work features on most A-level French syllabuses and on the majority of University French Studies programmes both in the UK and the USA .
Price: $29.95
Pages: 240
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: French Film Directors Series
Publication Date:
02 July 1998
ISBN: 9780719045547
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Diana Holmes is Professor of French at Keele University. Robert Ingram is Associate Dean in the School of Languages and European Studies at the University of Wolverhampton
Preface
Les Mistons: an introduction
1. The Context: Cinema Saved my Life
2. A Career in Cinema
3. The Genre Films
4. Magic Mothers: The Sexual Politics of Truffaut’s Films
5. Where is the Father? Masculinity and Authorship
6. The Definitif and the Provisoire (The Absolute v. the Provisional)
Filmography
Bibliography