French cinema in close-up
Subtitle: La vie d'un acteur pour moi : illustrated mini-dictionary of actors and actresses of the French cinema
By: edited by Michaël Abecassis ; with Marcelline Block ; caricatures by Jenny Batlay and Igor Bratusek
Contributors: Block, Marcelline; Batlay, Jenny; Bratusek, Igor
Publisher: Phaeton Publishing Limited
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781908420114
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Motion pictures; Actors; Dictionaries; Biography
Description: An insight into French film through its actors: profiles of 175 actors and actresses of the French Cinema, illustrated with caricatures of each actor by Jenny BATLAY and Igor BRATUSEK. - Not just biographies, but personal sketches of the actors and actresses, looking at their personalities, acting, and careers. The book is presented alphabetically in mini-dictionary form, and its contributors include academics from around the world - from universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, Cyprus, France, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States - as well as journalists, film curators, and lovers of French cinema, both francophones and Francophiles. It contains a comprehensive alphabetical Index of 2,200 Films - mostly French Films (with their alternative English titles where these were issued), as well as American and European films in which the profiled French actors have appeared. Accurate biographical details (from original records) are provided, including birth names for those actors with a stage name different to their birth names.

Contains primary source material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.