France in Focus: Film and National Identity

Marc Notes: Incl. bibl. ref., filmography and index; Dist.: New York U. P.; Also avail. in clothPublisher Marketing: The cinema is France's major cultural institution and a key expression of national identity at home and abroad. This volume brings together the work of leading visual culture scholars from the UK, France and the US who examine the sources and expressions of French national identity in film. Contributor Bio:  Harris, Sue Lisa Downing is Professor of French and Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe at the University of Exeter. Sue Harris is Senior Lecturer in French at Queen Mary, University of London. Contributor Bio:  Ezra, Elizabeth Dr Elizabeth Ezra is a Lecturer in European Film and Media at the University of Stirling. She took her PhD at Cornell University in 1992. Her previous publications include Georges Melies: The Birth of the Auteur (Manchester University Press, 2000), The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France (Cornell University Press, 2000).and co-edited with Sue Harris France in Focus: Film and National Identity (Bergman, 2001).