Contemporary French Cinema : An Introduction

Rating:
Summary: too contemporary to be aptly critical
Review: Contemporary French Cinema is certainly helpful as it is one of only a few books to be published in English about French cinema from 1980 on. Unfortunately, as is common with many contemporary cultural studies, the book lacks a historical perspective, and therefore explores some avenues that may be relatively insignificant, while glancing over others that perhaps should have been studied more closely. This book is also a little too unorganized, with Austin moving rather uneloquently between subjects, movements, and genres. Still, it gives a nice overview of stylistic tendencies and movements of contemporary French film.

Rating:
Summary: too contemporary to be aptly critical
Review: Contemporary French Cinema is certainly helpful as it is one of only a few books to be published in English about French cinema from 1980 on. Unfortunately, as is common with many contemporary cultural studies, the book lacks a historical perspective, and therefore explores some avenues that may be relatively insignificant, while glancing over others that perhaps should have been studied more closely. This book is also a little too unorganized, with Austin moving rather uneloquently between subjects, movements, and genres. Still, it gives a nice overview of stylistic tendencies and movements of contemporary French film.