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Article: MASCULINE SINGULAR: FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Film Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Film Studies Association of Canada Spring 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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MASCULINE SINGULAR: FRENCH NEW WAVE CINEMA Geneviève Sellier Translated by Kristin Ross. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008, 269 pp.
Reviewed by Julianne Pidduck
In Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema, Geneviève Sellier insists upon sexual difference as a pivotal problematic within the French New Wave and in the critical discourses surrounding the movement. French film journalism and scholarship have overwhelmingly and uncritically celebrated the formal innovation and indelible personal vision of iconic male auteurs, notably the trio of Godard, Truffaut and Chabrol. Now available in English, this groundbreaking 2005 feminist intervention into French film scholarship challenges the ...