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Phil Powrie

Phil Powrie is Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. He is Chair of the British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies and Chief General Editor of Studies in French Cinema. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Keith Reader

Keith Reader is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Glasgow. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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French Cinema: A Student’s Guide

Bloomsbury Academic, 2002

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...The world’s first screening of a motion picture to a paying audience took place at the Grand Café in Paris on 28 December 1895; it was a programme of short films by Louis Lumière, who with his brother Auguste ran a photography firm in Lyon....

Exotic Objects

Elizabeth Ezra

Elizabeth Ezra is Professor of Cinema and Culture at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Major publications include: The Colonial Unconscious (2000); Georges Méliès: The Birth of the Auteur (2000); Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2008); European Cinema (2004); and Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader (2006) as well as numerous contributions to scholarly journals including Screen and Yale French Studies. Current work includes projects on screen tests and on the posthuman in children's literature and cinema. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Cinema of Things : Globalization and the Posthuman Object

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...In the climax of Micmacs, the homeless band hoodwinks the arms dealers into thinking they are in the Middle East, when in fact they have never left the outskirts of Paris. A similar play of distance and proximity is at work...

“Rebecca”: A Cinderella-Like Story ￭ “I’ve Never Received an Oscar” ￭ “Foreign Correspondent” ￭ Gary Cooper’s Mistake ￭ In Holland, Windmills and Rain ￭ The Blood-Stained Tulip ￭ What’s a Macguffin? ￭ Flashback to “The Thirty-Nine Steps” ￭ “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” ￭ “All Actors are Cattle” ￭ “Suspicion” ￭ The Luminous Glass of Milk

François Truffaut

François Truffaut

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Hitchcock

Faber & Faber, 2017

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...Hitchcock appears in Rebecca (1940), passing by the telephone booth being used by George Sanders.Van Meer (Albert Basserman), held prisoner, is questioned by the spy Stephen Fisher (Herbert Marshall), whom he thinks is his friend....

“Sabotage” Versus “Saboteur” ￭ A Mass of Ideas Clutters up a Picture ￭ “Shadow of a Doubt” ￭ Tribute to Thornton Wilder ￭ “The Merry Widow” ￭ An Idealistic Killer ￭ “Lifeboat” ￭ A microcosm of War ￭ Like a Pack of Dogs ￭ Return to London ￭ Modest War Contribution: “Bon Voyage” and “Aventure Malgache”

François Truffaut

François Truffaut

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Hitchcock

Faber & Faber, 2017

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...The story of Shadow of a Doubt centers on Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten), opening with his arrival in Santa Rosa for a visit with his family. The real purpose of his visit is to elude two investigators who are on his trail. The family...

Spectacular Comeback Via “Strangers on a Train” ￭ A Monopoly on the Suspense Genre ￭ The Little Man Who Crawled ￭ A Bitchy Wife ￭ “I Confess” ￭ A “Barbaric Sophisticate” ￭ The Sanctity of Confession ￭ Experience Alone is Not Enough ￭ Fear of the Police ￭ Story of a “Menage a Trois”

François Truffaut

François Truffaut

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Hitchcock

Faber & Faber, 2017

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...On a train, Guy (Farley Granger), a champion tennis player, is approached by Bruno (Robert Walker), a fellow passenger who is a fan of his. Bruno, who seems to know all about Guy’s personal life, proposes a friendly arrangement...

Hitchcock’s First Sound Film: “Blackmail” ￭ The Shuftan Process ￭ “Juno and the Paycock” ￭ Why Hitchcock Will Never Film “Crime and Punishment” ￭ What is Suspense? ￭ “Murder” ￭ “The Skin Game” ￭ “Rich and Strange” ￭ Two Innocents in Paris ￭ “Number Seventeen” ￭ Cats, Cats Everywhere ￭ “Waltzes From Vienna” ￭ The Lowest EBB and The Comeback

François Truffaut

François Truffaut

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Hitchcock

Faber & Faber, 2017

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...Hitchcock: Now Miss Ondra, we are going to do a sound test. Isn’t that what you wanted? Now come right over here.Ondra: I don’t know what to say. I’m so nervous!Hitchcock: Have you been a good girl?Ondra: Oh, no!Hitchcock: No? Have you...

Childhood ￭ Behind Prison Bars ￭ “Came the Dawn” ￭ Michael Balcon ￭ “Woman to Woman” ￭ “Number Thirteen” ￭ Introducing the Future Mrs. Hitchcock ￭ A Melodramatic Shooting: “The Pleasure Garden” ￭ “The Mountain Eagle”

François Truffaut

François Truffaut

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Hitchcock

Faber & Faber, 2017

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...Betty Compson and Clive Brook in Woman to Woman.Set created by Hitchcock for Woman to Woman.Number Thirteen, 1922The White Shadow (1923).Patsy, a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden Theater, gets her girl friend Jill a job in the troupe....

The First True Hitchcock: “The Lodger” ￭ Creating a Purely Visual Form ￭ The Glass Floor ￭ Handcuffs and Sex ￭ Why Hitchcock Appears in his Films ￭ “Downhill” ￭ “Easy Virtue” ￭ “The Ring” and One-Round Jack ￭ “The Farmers Wife” ￭ The Griffith Influence ￭ “Champagne” ￭ The Last Silent Movie: “The Manxman”

François Truffaut

François Truffaut

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Hitchcock

Faber & Faber, 2017

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...Alfred Hitchcock can also be recognized in a later sequence of the picture, in which, wearing a cap and leaning against a railing, he is one of the bystanders looking on as Ivor Novello is captured by the police.With his back to camera...