Indiana is the story's heroine, a young noblewoman descended from French colonial settlers from Île Bourbon who lives in France. Indiana is married to an older

A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.

This revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the

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Colin Crisp re-evaluates the stylistic evolution of the classic French cinema, and represents the New Wave film-makers as its natural heirs rather than the moul