Hugo Frey is Head of Department and Professor of Cultural and Visual History at the University of Chichester, UK. He is the author of Louis Malle (2004) and co-author with Jan Baetens of The Graphic Novel: An Introduction (2015). He has published articles on historiography, cinema and graphic novels in journals such as Contemporary French Civilisation, Journal of European Studies, South Central Review, and Yale French Studies. Since the fall of 2013 he has been an invited guest lecturer on French cinema for the Prince's Teaching Institute, London.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: From International 'High Art' to the Parisian Political Melee

Chapter 1. The Cinema of Self-Promotion: Patriotic Subtexts in 'Films about Films'
Chapter 2. The Search for National Unity through History
Chapter 3. The Representation of a Modern Chic People
Chapter 4. A Paradox in Anti-Americanism: Public Protest and on Screen Ambiguity
Chapter 5. The Maintenance of Neo-Colonial Attitudes
Chapter 6. The Persistence of anti-Semitism
Chapter 7. The Cinema and the Extreme Right-Wing Undercurrent

Conclusion

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