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RR 2016/099 A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema Edited by Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphaëlle Moine, Hilary Radner Wiley Malden, MA and Oxford and Blackwell 2015 xix + 691 pp. ISBN 978 1 4443 3899 7 (print); ISBN 978 1 118 58542 9 (e-book); £120 $195 (print); £108.99 $156.99 (e-book) Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
Keywords Cinema, France
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-12-2015-0287
This volume appears in a series of Companions to National Cinemas but is different from previous volumes in concentrating on a brief period, in this case from 1990 to the present day. So one can begin by hoping that the richness of previous French cinema is going to be covered at some point. There is some justification for the narrowing of focus in that France has the largest filmmaking industry in the Western world outside the USA. The introduction to the book adds that this period has been chosen "because both in terms of the great increase in the number of new filmmakers, and also the striking increase in the number of films produced, the past two decades mark a significant, distinctive era in the history of French cinema". The editors later add that this period has a remarkable variety of forms and...