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archival research
art history
artistic
audiences
Author_Catherine Wheatley
Author_Lucy Mazdon
british film
british film culture
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cinema
continental films
culture
detailed history
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europe
european film industry
film distribution
film exhibition
film history
film markets
film society
foreign films
french cinema
french films
historical
history criticism
hollywood
humor and drama
page turner
performing arts
pop culture
retrospective
romance
Product details
- ISBN 9780857453501
- Weight: 503g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2013
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language work. French cinema, however, appears to undergo a transformation as it reaches Britain, becoming something quite different to that experienced by audiences at home. Drawing on extensive archival research the authors examine in detail the discourses, debates, and decisions which have determined the place accorded to French cinema in British film culture. In so doing they provide a fascinating account of this particular instance of transnational cinematic traffic while simultaneously shedding new light on British film history. From the early days of the Film Society, via the advent of the X certificate to the new possibilities of video and DVD, this book reveals the complex and detailed history of the distribution, exhibition, marketing, and reception of French cinema in Britain.
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). 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.
