Jacques Feyder : Gender, class and colonialism on film (French and Francophone Filmmakers)

Nevin, Barry

Manchester University Press（2026/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526124012

Full Description

This is the first English-language book on Jacques Feyder, one of the Golden Age of French cinema's most prolific directors. Although once hailed as a major filmmaker, Feyder's reputation waned in the decades following his death, and scholars tend to underestimate his contributions to cinema. This study argues that a fuller understanding of Feyder's style involves exploring his complex portrayals of gender, class and colonialism across his body of work, including films he directed in France, Hollywood, Germany, England and elsewhere. In doing so, the book reveals an ambitious director who took cinema in new aesthetic directions and often crafted provocative reflections on social inequalities in French society.

Contents

Introduction: Feyder and French cinema
1 Feyder's family melodramas
2 Cinéma colonial: Feyder in North Africa and Indochina
3 Gender, Empire and religion in the Spanish Orient
4 French politics, censorship and Les Nouveaux messieurs (1929)
5 Feyder, authorship and Hollywood stardom
6 Identity, nationality and emigration
7 Feyder's legacies

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