Sipière, Dominique
Transatlantic Cinema: French Influences on Film Research in the United States
- 2001.
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This is an attempt to describe and assess the reciprocal influences of American film and film studies on the one hand, and French writing about American films, on the other hand. After a historical reminder of the last forty years and their great theoretical issues, a brief interlude is devoted to the example of the extreme diversity of approaches dealing with one specific film maker (Alfred Hitchcock). The last part suggests a more general classification between the successive (instead of exclusive) layers of ?explication? and ?interpretation?, and it tries to assess what each continent brought to film spectators and film studies.