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The Cinematic Enfant Terrible: Rule Breaking Children and Teenagers in French Cinema

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The Cinematic Enfant Terrible is a groundbreaking study of rule breakers in French cinema.

The book approaches the concept of the enfant terrible in the literal sense of the term – young people labelled 'terrible' (awful) by the adult generation. It explores a rich cinematic tradition from Jean Vigo's Zéro de conduite (1933) and François Truffaut's Les Quatre cents coups (1959), to Catherine Breillat's 36 fillette (1988) and Ladj Ly's Les Misérables (2019). The book encompasses the cinematic...