Jacques Feyder: Gender, class and colonialism on film

This is the first English-language book on Jacques Feyder, one of the Golden Age of French cinema’s most prolific directors. Although once hailed as a major filmmaker, Feyder’s reputation waned in the decades following his death, and scholars tend to underestimate his contributions to cinema. This study argues that a fuller understanding of Feyder’s style involves exploring his complex portrayals of gender, class and colonialism across his body of work, including films he directed in France...