French Westerns: On the Frontier of Film Genre and French Cinema

The production of films that may be called both ‘French’ and ‘western’ spans the history of cinema, and includes the films by celebrated stars and directors. However, with the exception of early silent production, French westerns are overlooked in studies of French cinema, of film genre and even of the ‘transnational’ western.
French Westerns: The Frontier of Film Genre and French Cinema is the first scholarly monograph dedicated to these films. This study advances the recovery of popular E...