Screenwriters have been central figures in French Cinema since the conversion to sound, from early French-language talkies for the domestic market to lavish literary adaptations of the notorious \'quality tradition\' of the 1950s, and from the \'aesthetic revolution\' of the New Wave to the contemporary popular and auteur film in the 2000s.
The first English language study to address Screenwriters in French cinema, this volume will be of particular interest to scholars and students of French film an.
Screenwriters have been central figures in French Cinema since the conversion to sound, from early French-language talkies for the domestic market to lavish literary adaptations of the notorious \'quality tradition\' of the 1950s, and from the \'aesthetic revolution\' of the New Wave to the contemporary popular and auteur film in the 2000s
