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Article: Jean Cocteau.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Jean Cocteau. By James S. Williams. (French Film Directors) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2006. xv+223 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7190-5883-7.
Cocteau's contribution to the cinema is the area of his artistic activity where his genius has been most unambiguously recognized, and yet the available critical literature still remains relatively thin, which makes this new volume in the Manchester French Film Directors series all the more welcome. James S. Williams deals with Cocteau's contribution to the cinema as a whole, and so discusses films to which Cocteau contributed without being director, particularly L'Eternel Retour, ...