by Sue Harris, Elizabeth Ezra · Berg Publishers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781859733684
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«France in Focus: Film and National Identity» is an essay edited by Elizabeth Ezra and Sue Harris, published by Berg Publishers in paperback.
It brings together essays by specialists from the UK, France and the USA that examine the relationship between movies and French national identity, from its origins to contemporary cinema, including the Occupation and the Nouvelle Vague. It includes readings of forgotten and well-known movies and of filmmakers such as Méliès, Renoir, Truffaut or Godard.
Text in English. Includes filmography (pp. 207-217), bibliographic references (pp. 219-229) and index.
Intended for students and researchers of French studies, film and culture, and for those interested in the history of France.
Sue Harris is an English musician classically trained as an oboeist, but latterly best known for her folk music performances with the hammered dulcimer. From the early 1970s to the early 1990s she frequently performed in partnership with her then husband John Kirkpatrick before pursuing other musical interests since that time. Other bands with which she has been associated include the Albion Country Band, Umps and Dumps, the English Country Blues Band, PolkaWorks, and the English Dulcimer Duo.
