"This is a rich and academically relevant collection ... that offers an engagement with a full spectrum of disciplinary interests ... The running filmography that is established across the volume will be a great resource to film scholars and students, and the range of methodological approaches deployed is genuinely inspiring in terms of its diversity, application and results." - Sue Harris, Queen Mary University of London
" T]here is much here to inform the specialist and please the aficionado. This is a welcome addition to the fields of reception studies, French and British film history...
"This is a rich and academically relevant collection ... that offers an engagement with a full spectrum of disciplinary interests ... The running film...
In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language works. 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...
In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language works. French cinema, howe...