Julien Duvivier by Ben Mccann

Julien Duvivier by Ben Mccann

Duvivier was a giant of classic French cinema with a career spanning key moments of French film history. This analysis goes beyond its historical range to engage with key debates in film studies: notably auteurism, stardom and questions of the national. -- .

‘McCann’s study of Duvivier argues coherently for the director’s status as an auteur, particularly with its emphasis on recurring themes and its descriptive, but informative, discussions of a range of key filmsThis book fits well within the French filmmakers series, but can also stand individually as a case study on a long neglected director.’
Gillian Kelly, University of Glasgow, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 37, No. 3

'McCann provides a wealth of information on the director’s life, times and work as well as an accessible yet rigorous critical study of Duvivier’s cinema which brings Duvivier into line with his other more revered contemporaries.... If, as McCann argues, Duvivier’s work is ripe for re-evaluation, then this book is surely the guide to such an endeavour. Indeed, it might serve well as a companion to the revisiting of Duvivier’s cinema or, for those familiar only with his best-known films, an exhaustive introduction to those films which, for one reason or another, found their way into the ashcan of cinema history.
Felicity Chaplin, Monash University, senses of cinema, No. 87 (June 2018)

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Ben McCann is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Adelaide

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780719091148
ISBN 10	0719091144
Title	Julien Duvivier
Author	Ben Mccann
Series	French Film Directors Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Year published	2017-02-15
Number of pages	272
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