This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general.

Jonathan Driskell is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Sunway Campus (Malaysia)

1. Marcel Carné's career and reception: the highs and lows
2. Poetic realism
3. The Second World War and its aftermath
4. Post-war cinema and the tradition of quality
5. The French new wave
6. The end of a long career
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