Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema

by Geneviève Sellier

Book Overview

Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Genevi ve Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinema's formative years, from 1957 to 1962. The New Wave filmmakers were members of a young generation emerging on the French cultural scene, eager to acquire...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341921
• ISBN13: 9780822341925
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"