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  • French Grammar in Context

    by Margaret Jubb, Annie Rouxeville, Michaël Abecassis ...
    Series series Languages in Context
    French Grammar in Context presents a unique and exciting approach to learning grammar and this revised sixth edition includes new chapters on language registers and regional varieties, as well as three additional revision texts.Authentic texts from a rich variety of sources, literary and journalistic, are used as the starting point for the illustration and explanation of key areas of French ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Art of Directing

    A Concise Dictionary of France’s Film Directors

    Edited by Michaël Abecassis, Marcelline Block, Felicity Chaplin ...
    «This erudite and informative book on French film directors is a comprehensive deep dive into the multi-faceted and interconnected landscape of Francophone cinema. From Akerman to Zidi, via Godard and Gondry, the volume marshals an impressive range of scholars who demonstrate how the French ‘art of directing’ – whether from established legends or emerging voices – is a blend of the perceptive, the ... Read more

    $101.69 USD

  • Le Grain de la voix dans le monde anglophone et francophone

    Edited by Michaël Abecassis, Marcelline Block, Gudrun Ledegen, Maribel Peñalver Vicea ...
    Series Book 130 - Modern French Identities
    Comme l’a noté le philosophe Jacques Derrida, l’enregistrement des voix a été l’un des évènements marquants du siècle passé. Le sociolinguiste William Labov s’est intéressé aux motivations sociales des variations phonologiques, mais non pas à la voix en tant que telle. Les recherches effectuées sur la texture et la qualité de la voix ou la relation entre la voix et l’affect sont beaucoup plus ... Read more

    $70.09 USD

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  • Everything Is Cinema

    The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

    by Richard Brody ...
    From New Yorker film critic Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard presents a "serious-minded and meticulously detailed . . . account of the lifelong artistic journey" of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age ( The New York Times).When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The New Wave

    Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

    by James Monaco ...
    Three decades after its first publication, The New Wave is still considered one of the fundamental texts on the French film movement of the same name. Led by filmmakers as influential as Truffaut and Godard, the New Wave was a seminal moment in cinematic history, and The New Wave has been hailed as the most complete book ever written about it.The New Wave tells the story of the New Wave through ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • A Complicated Passion

    The Life and Work of Agnès Varda

    by Carrie Rickey ...
    **Shortlisted for the 2025 American Library in Paris Book Award“[A] compact, complete, and highly enjoyable book.” ?A. S. Hamrah, BookforumThe first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.”**Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928–2019) wrote and directed some of the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Agnes Varda

    Interviews

    Edited by T. Jefferson Kline ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the “Mother of the New Wave” but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment in France. Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the characteristics of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Modern Languages Study Guides: Un sac de billes

    Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level French

    by Karine Harrington ...
    Series series Film and literature guides
    Exam Board: AQA & EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: Modern LanguagesFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Éric Rohmer

    A Biography

    by Antoine de Baecque, Noël Herpe ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
    The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1957 to 1963, Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. Such brilliance does not develop in a vacuum, and Rohmer cultivated a fascinating network of friends, colleagues, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian

    by Michael Witt ...
    Originally released as a videographic experiment in film history, Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma has pioneered how we think about and narrate cinema history, and in how history is taught through cinema. In this stunningly illustrated volume, Michael Witt explores Godard's landmark work as both a specimen of an artist's vision and a philosophical statement on the history of film. Witt ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • LE CAHIER PRATIQUE DU DIAMANT DE NAISSANCE

    by ERIC JACKSON PERRIN ...
    Ce cahier pratique vous fournit les phrases utilisées pour l'interprétationdu Diamant de Naissance. Il vous permet également d'effectuer del'orientation professionnelle grâce à une sélection d'activités en lien avecdes maisons spécifiques et les nombres qui se trouvent dans ces maisons.Il est dédié aux passionné(e)s de numérologie pratique et à toute personnequi s'intéroge sur ces compétences et ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Haine

    French Film Guide

    by Ginette Vincendeau ...
    Series series Ciné-File French Film Guides
    "La Haine" is a cult classic with cinema audiences, recently re-released and available on dvd. Ginette Vincendeau is top authority internationally on French cinema, who writes (eg "Sight and Sound") and broadcasts (eg "Front Row Radio 4") on it regularly. It is hugely enjoyable, exciting book written with great panache and accessibility. Released in 1995, "La Haine" is the black and white ... Read more

    $27.99 USD