French Cinema Since 1950 Personal Histories

"Wilson deals rather uncritically with auteur theory, while admitting that it presents problems in a collaborative medium. What really interests her is the idea of cinema as histoire, both in the sense of "history" and of "story". She analyses a number of films with biographical or autobiographical themes (LES ROSEAUX SAUVAGES, 1994, JACQUOT DE NANTES, 1991), then shows how many of the criteria that help to make these narratives personal and immediate can also be applied to love stories, thrillers, even the dreaded "heritage cinema....Wilson, Emma is the author of 'French Cinema Since 1950 Personal Histories', published 2000 under ISBN 9780847698394 and ISBN 0847698394.