A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema

<p><i>A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema</i> presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing all aspects of French cinema from 1990 to the present day.</p> <ul> <li>Features original contributions from top film scholars relating to all aspects of contemporary French cinema</li> <li>Includes new research on matters relating to the political economy of contemporary French cinema, developments in cinema policy, audience attendance, and the types, building, and renovation of theaters</li> <li>Utilizes groundbreaking research on cinema beyond the fiction film and the cinema-theater such as documentary, amateur, and digital filmmaking</li> <li>Contains an unusually large range of methodological approaches and perspectives, including those of genre, gender, auteur, industry, economic, star, postcolonial and psychoanalytic studies</li> <li>Includes essays by important French cinema scholars from France, the U.S., and New Zealand, many of whose work is here presented in English for the first time</li> </ul>