Books by Dudley Andrew

In his introduction, Dudley Andrews illuminates the intertextual and cultural references of the film and the tensions within it between tradition and innovation. This volume also features the complete and accurate continuity script of the film, together with Truffaut's original screenplay.

Employing a "poetics of culture" to capture the complex atmospherics of 1930s Paris, the authors have produced something closer to the format of an illustrated newspaper than a straight story of the Popular Front. The book's multiple columns represent the breadth of urban life during this critical decade at the end of the Third French Republic.