In The Faber Book of French Cinema, Charles Drazin explores the rich film culture and history of the country that first established cinema as the most important mass medium of the twentieth century.
Demonstrates how the transnational process of forging an industry designed to define a national culture proved particularly contentious and surprisingly contradictory in the heyday of racial nationalism and antisemitism. This title details the interplay of Hungarian cultural and political elites, Nazi officials, and global film moguls.
In contrast to content-, theme-, or issue-based approaches to French film, this title stresses 'the cinema-tic-ally specific, the warp and fabric of the film itself, the stuff of which it is made'.
