"This book represents a significant contribution to scholarship, and will fill a serious gap. Conway's entirely original research is well structured and clearly written, imparts expert readings, and is strengthened by historical groundedness. This is an extremely important book."--Christopher Faulkner, Carleton University, author of "The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir
"Offers fresh, challenging perspectives on French film history, on women in French cinema, and on the relationship between film of the 1930s and the city of Paris."--Judith Mayne, Ohio State University, author of "Cinema and Spectatorship
