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• Biographies (13) • Encyclopedias (2) • Dictionaries (2) • Essays (9) • Studies (114) • Interviews (2) • Photos (1) • Filmmakers' writings (2)
• Biographies (5) • Encyclopedias (1) • Dictionaries (1) • Essays (4) • Studies (51) • Interviews (1) • Photos (1) • Filmmakers' writings (1)
• Biographies (13 books)(5 books)
Michel Legrand (2025)
A Life in Music and Film
by Michel Legrand, Stéphane Lerouge and Sam Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Others persons > Michel Legrand
Yves Montand (2023)
The Passionate Voice
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actor > Yves Montand
Jean Gabin (2023)
The Actor Who Was France
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actor > Jean Gabin
Isabelle Huppert (2022)
Stardom, Performance, Authorship
Dir. Darren Waldron and Nick Rees-Roberts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Actor > Isabelle Huppert
Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism (2021)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Actor > Josephine Baker
Georges Auric (2020)
A Life in Music and Politics
by Colin Roust
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Others persons > Georges Auric
Éric Rohmer (2016)
A Biography
by Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Director > Eric Rohmer
Albert Capellani (2015)
Pioneer of the Silent Screen
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Albert Capellani
Pierre Batcheff and Stardom in 1920s French Cinema (2009)
by Phil Powrie and Eric Rebillard
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Actor > Pierre Batcheff
Maurice Tourneur (2008)
The Life and Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Maurice Tourneur
Truffaut (2000)
A Biography
by Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
Eric Rohmer (1988)
Realist and Moralist
by Colin Crisp
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Eric Rohmer
• Encyclopedias (2 books)(1 book)
Jacques Tati (2019)
The Complete Works
Dir. Alison Castle
Publisher: Taschen
Subject: Director > Jacques Tati
The Ciné Goes to Town (1998)
French Cinema 1896 - 1914
by Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
• Dictionaries (2 books)(1 book)
The Art of Directing (2023)
A Concise Dictionary of France's Film Directors
Dir. Michaël Abecassis, Marcelline Block and Felicity Chaplin
Publisher: Peter Lang
Directory of World Cinema / France (2013)
Dir. Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael
Publisher: Intellect Books
• Essays (9 books)(4 books)
Cinematic Vitalism (2018)
Film Theory and the Question of Life
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Theory
Spectacle in Classical Cinemas (2018)
Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s
by Tom Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: On Films > Per period
Cinéma Militant (2016)
Political Filmmaking and May 1968
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Sociology
Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema (2013)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Je t'aime... moi non plus (2010)
Franco-British Cinematic Relations
Dir. Lucy Mazdon and Catherine Wheatley
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Why the French Love Jerry Lewis (2002)
From Cabaret to Early Cinema
by Rae Gordon
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Countries
• Studies (114 books)(51 books)
Nouvelles Femmes (2025)
Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema
Publisher: Chronicle Chroma
Mixed Feelings in France (2025)
White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy
Publisher: transcript publishing
Through a Nuclear Lens (2024)
France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance (2024)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Actor > Isabelle Huppert
The Cinematic Influence (2024)
Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Gender in French Banlieue Cinema (2024)
Intersectional Perspectives
Dir. Marzia Caporale, Claire Mouflard and Habib Zanzana
Publisher: Lexington Books
The Ethnographic Optic (2024)
Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema
Publisher: Indiana University Press
The Bressonians (2024)
French Cinema and the Culture of Authorship
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Subject: Director > Robert Bresson
Is It French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France (2024)
Dir. Mary Harrod and Raphaëlle Moine
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Reframing the European Other (2023)
Identity and Belonging in Contemporary French and German Cinema
Publisher: Peter Lang
Transatlantic Cinephilia (2023)
Film Culture between Latin America and France, 1945–1965
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: General
The Films of Claire Denis (2023)
Dir. Peter Sloane
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Claire Denis
Performative Images (2023)
A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France
by Anaïs Nony
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert (2023)
Dir. Iggy Cortez and Ian Fleishman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Actor > Isabelle Huppert
Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema (2023)
Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane, Mistinguett
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
French B Movies (2023)
Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Continental Films (2022)
French Cinema Under German Control
by Christine Leteux and Bertrand Taverneir
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Pepsi and the Pill (2022)
Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Looking Beyond Neoliberalism (2022)
French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics (2022)
French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
From Ciné-goûters to Screenings for Cinephilie (2022)
The Cinemas of the Instituts and the Alliances françaises
by Giusy Pisano
Publisher: Presses universitaires du Septentrion
Subject: Sociology
Derivative Images (2022)
Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought
by Calum Watt
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Totally Truffaut (2021)
23 Films for Understanding the Man and the Filmmaker
by Anne Gillain
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
Reframing Remembrance (2021)
Contemporary French Cinema and the Second World War
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Céline Sciamma (2021)
Portraits
by Emma Wilson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Céline Sciamma
Screenwriters in French Cinema (2021)
by Sarah Leahy and Isabelle Vanderschelden
Publisher: Manchester University Press
French Film in Britain (2021)
Sex, Art and Cinephilia
by Lucy Mazdon and Catherine Wheatley
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Miraculous Realism (2021)
The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord
Publisher: State University of New York Press
The Films of Rachid Bouchareb (2020)
Dir. Michael Gott and Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Rachid Bouchareb
The Films of Michel Gondry (2020)
Dir. Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Michel Gondry
Cinema and Contact (2020)
The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis
Publisher: Routledge
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub (2020)
Objectivists in Cinema
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Director > Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Revolution in Paradise (2019)
Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the Cinema of Occupied France
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Films of Francis Veber (2019)
by Keith Corson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Francis Veber
Screening Youth (2019)
Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema
Dir. Romain Chareyron and Gilles Viennot
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
French Literature on Screen (2019)
Dir. Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies (2018)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology
Critical Mass (2018)
Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave
by Steven Ungar
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Screening the Paris Suburbs (2018)
From the Silent Era to the 1990s
Dir. Philippe Met and Derek Schilling
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Claude Chabrol's Aesthetics of Opacity (2017)
by Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Claude Chabrol
Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas (2017)
Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Decentring France (2017)
Multilingualism and Power in Contemporary French Cinema
by Gemma King
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Exception Taken (2017)
How France Has Defied Hollywood's New World Order
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Economics
French-language Road Cinema (2016)
Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe'
by Michael Gott
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
French and Spanish Queer Film (2016)
Audiences, Communities and Cultural Exchange
by Chris Perriam and Darren Waldron
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France (2016)
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Subject: Sociology
Nationalism and the Cinema in France (2016)
Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995
by Hugo Frey
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Subject: Sociology
Christophe Honoré (2015)
A Critical Introduction
by David A. Gerstner and Julien Nahmias
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Director > Christophe Honoré
The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923 (2015)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Palimpsestic Memory (2015)
The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film
Publisher: Berghahn Books
From Empire to the World (2015)
Migrant London and Paris in the Cinema
by Malini Guha
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Sociology
The Pedagogical Imagination (2014)
The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film
by Leon Sachs
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Reframing Reality (2014)
The Aesthetics of the Surrealist Object in French and Czech Cinema
by Alison Frank
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Theory
The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956 (2013)
by Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier
Publisher: Duke University Press
Post-beur Cinema (2013)
North African Émigré and Maghrebi-French Filmmaking in France since 2000
by Will Higbee
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
François Truffaut (2013)
The Lost Secret
by Anne Gillain
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
Open Roads, Closed Borders (2013)
The Contemporary French-Language Road Movie
Dir. Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Sociology
Cinema and the Republic (2013)
Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France (2013)
Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print
by Kate Griffiths and Andrew Watts
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Screening Integration (2012)
Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France
by Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors (2011)
A Sequel
by Ruth A. Hottell and Janis L. Pallister
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
The Films of Louis Malle (2011)
A Critical Analysis
by Nathan C. Southern and Jacques Weissgerber
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Louis Malle
Neither God Nor Master (2011)
Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
by Brian Price
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Director > Robert Bresson
La France contemporaine à travers ses films (2010)
Publisher: Focus Publishing
(in English and French)
Subject: Sociology
Past Forward (2010)
French Cinema and the Post-Colonial Heritage
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Cinema in an Age of Terror (2010)
North Africa, Victimization, and Colonial History
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Subject: Sociology
Memory and the Moving Image (2010)
French Film in the Digital Era
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Theory
Film Criticism as Cultural Fantasy (2010)
The Perpetual French Discovery of Australian Cinema
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: Film Analysis
The New Face of Political Cinema (2009)
Commitment in French Film since 1995
Publisher: Berghahn Books
French Queer Cinema (2008)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Entertainment Industrialised (2008)
The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890–1940
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Economics
Beyond Auteurism (2008)
New Directions in Authorial Film Practices in France, Italy and Spain since the 1980s
Publisher: Intellect Books
Masculine Singular (2008)
French New Wave Cinema
by Kristin Ross and Geneviève Sellier
Publisher: Duke University Press
Reading the French New Wave (2008)
Critics, Writers and Art Cinema in France
Publisher: Wallflower Press
French Colonial Documentary (2008)
Mythologies of Humanitarianism
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
It's So French! (2007)
Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Sociology
The New Pornographies (2007)
Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film
by Victoria Best and Martin Crowley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Sociology
Facing the Pacific (2007)
Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
La France dans le regard des Etats-Unis (2006)
France as seen by the United States
Dir. Frédéric Monneyron and Martine Xiberras
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Perpignan
(in French and English)
Subject: Sociology
Sapphism on Screen (2006)
Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Reframing Difference (2005)
Beur and Banlieue Filmmaking in France
by Carrie Tarr
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Cinema's Conversion to Sound (2005)
Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Didn't You Used to Be Depardieu? (2002)
Film as Cultural Marker in France and Hollywood
Publisher: Peter Lang
France on Film (2001)
Reflections on Popular French Cinema
Dir. Lucy Mazdon
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Memory and Survival the French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski (2000)
by Emma Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Director > Krzysztof Kieslowski
French Cinema in the 1990s (1999)
Continuity and Difference
Dir. Phil Powrie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
May 68 in French Fiction and Film (1999)
Rethinking Society, Rethinking Representation
Publisher: Oxford University Press
A Thousand Screenplays (1999)
The French Imagination in a Time of Crisis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Sociology
Landscapes of Loss (1999)
The National Past in Postwar French Cinema
by Naomi Greene
Publisher: Princeton University Press
French Cinema in the 1980s (1997)
Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity
by Phil Powrie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism (1996)
Perspectives from the French and Francophone Worlds
Dir. Dina Sherzer
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Mists of Regret (1995)
Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Images of the Algerian War (1994)
French Fiction and Film, 1954-1992
by Philip Dine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cahiers du Cinéma (1992)
The 1960s New Wave, New Cinema, Reevaluating Hollywood
by Jim Hillier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
Cahiers du Cinéma (1986)
The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave
by Jim Hillier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
Cinema of Paradox (1985)
French Filmmaking Under the German Occupation
Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Interviews (2 books)(1 book)
Cahiers du Cinema (2023)
Interviews with film directors 1953-1970
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Subject: Director
Francois Truffaut (2008)
Interviews
Dir. Ronald Bergan
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
• Photos (1 book)(1 book)
• Filmmakers' writings (2 books)(1 book)
Truffaut on Cinema (2017)
Dir. Anne Gillain
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
The Intelligence of a Machine (2014)
by Jean Epstein
Publisher: Univocal Publishing
Subject: Director > Jean Epstein
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