Books by Emma Wilson

An illuminating new introduction to Alain Resnais's work, extending from his earliest documentaries to the musical films of the last decade Traces the evolving patterns of Resnais's filmmaking, and its changing reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt Sets Resnais's films in the context of important current debates in film.

This text on French cinema analyses the most widely viewed and studied works of the period, together with critical previews of some of the most recent French films as well as documentaries and home-movies.

Kieslowski's last films have indelibly marked the past decade. His cinema has renewed the representation of the human subject and emotion in film: space and luminous surface reveal the finest, most fragile impressions of states of mind and human consciousness.

An integrated analysis of Egoyan's contemplative cinema