French Film in Britain (eBook)

Catherine Wheatley is Lecturer in Film Studies at Kings College London. She is the author of Michael Haneke’s Cinema: The Ethic of the Image (Berghahn Books, 2009) and a BFI guide to Haneke’s Hidden, and editor (with Lucy Mazdon) of Je t’aime, moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations (Berghahn Books, 2010). She regularly contributes to Sight and Sound.

Lucy Mazdon is Professor in Film Studies at the University of Southampton. Her publications include Encore Hollywood: Remaking French Cinema (BFI, 2000), France on Film: Reflections on Popular French Cinema (Wallflower, 2001), (with Mike Hammond) The Contemporary Television Series, (EUP, 2005) and (with Catherine Wheatley) Je t’aime, moi non plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations (Berghahn Books, 2010).  

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Advent of Sound, A Changing Film Culture (1925-39)
Chapter 2. Cinema Goes to War (1939-1950)
Chapter 3. ‘Saucy and Naughty and Witty and Chic’: Can French Films Fill the Gap? (1950-1959)
Chapter 4. The French New Wave on British Shores (1959-1970)
Chapter 5. ‘A New Low in French Films’: Changing Perceptions of French Cinema (1970-1982)
Chapter 6. Video Saved the French Film? (1982-2002)

Conclusion

Appendices
Notes on Contributors
Index