BOOKS It’s So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture
By Vanessa R. Schwartz
University of Chicago Press £14
FT bookshop price: £11.19
Vanessa R. Schwartz’s account of Franco-American relations in the world of cinema is an erudite analysis of the dialogue between the two filmic powers. High French culture made Hollywood swoon with admiration and was the impetus, Schwartz argues, for a raft of US innovations on screen.
