Historical Dictionary of French Cinema

摘要

These days cinema audiences are becoming more sophisticated. Even general audiences are appreciating that there is a whole wide world of film production, and that foreign films can be enjoyed with subtitles - once an anathema to many. The Lives of Others, a German language film, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, has proved extremely popular with non-German audiences. Of course, the Cinema did not begin in Hollywood - as some might like to believe - but in France in 1895. And the French did not just "invent" the cinema, but have a fine and honourable history of producing hundreds of films a year, many of the cinemas great directors, screenwriters, actors, and films are French.