1st Edition

Caro and Jeunet Crafting French Cinema

By Michelle Scatton-Tessier Copyright 2025
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

The first book to fully focus on French cult filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Caro & Jeunet: Crafting French Cinema brings a scholarly perspective to the filmmakers’ collaborative and solo artistic projects as outliers in approach and content. Studying from their beginning passion for animation history to their most current works, Scatton-Tessier establishes their presence and... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1.At the Junction of Bande Dessinée and Moving Images, 2. An Allegory of Cinéma Forain, 3. Tales of Orphans and Monsters, 4. Everyday Pleasures and Misery, 5. Commercial Filmmaking, 6. Acts in Hyperreal Collage, 7. Continued Artistic Contributions, Index

Biography

Michelle Scatton-Tessier is a senior associate dean and professor of French at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.