Cross-channel perspectives
Subtitle: the French reception of British cinema
By: Leila Wimmer.
Series: New studies in European cinema -- 8
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9783039113606
Subjects: Motion pictures, British -- France; Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Film criticism -- France
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Realism and 'impure' cinema: the positive reception of British cinema after World War ii; title: François Truffaut and the New Wave: the vilification of British cinema; title: The creation of an alternative canon: positif midi-minuit fantastique, British horror and the fantastic; title: The 'return of the social': Ken Loach in the pantheon.