French National Cinema

<p>This revised and updated version of a successful and established text <em>French National Cinema</em> offers a thorough and much-needed historical overview of French cinema at a time when it continues to grow in popularity with films such as <em>Amelie</em> and <em>Belleville Rendez-vous.</em></p><p>Brought wholly up to date to include political and social developments in French cinema in the 1990s its fresh approach and groundbreaking new writing on the subject offers a much further understanding of French cinema and its relationship with the French national identity. </p><p>New subjects covered include:</p><ul> <li>the GATT negotiations of 1993</li> <li>French cinema's increasing dependence on investment from television</li> <li>the rise of the multiplex</li> <li>the implications of the introduction of digital technology.</li> </ul><p>Ideal for all students of cinema film studies and film history this book traces the eco-history of the French film and its key figures and movements and it places them in their wider political and cultural context.</p>