Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Elizabeth Ezra is a professor of cinema and culture at the University of Stirling. She is the author of The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman Object and The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France.

"Ezra usefully assembles a number of key themes . . . thus linking films that on the surface appear disparate. This gives a very coherent picture of Jeunet as an auteur."--H-France Review“An important title ... and a needed contribution to the critical studies of the whole of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film production.”--French Review "[Ezra] possesses a rich knowledge of French culture and cinema, which enables her to contemplate Jeunet's films within a social and historical context. Jeunet's commentary, providing an interesting and sometimes contrasting addendum to Ezra's analysis, completes this concise work. Highly Recommended."--Library Journal "This elegant and compelling assessment of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's work is long overdue in cinema scholarship. With an astute grasp of her topic, Ezra writes with authority, erudition, and genuine enthusiasm. An energetic and punchy book, it provides a new and rewarding assessment of a complex and underrated director to reveal continuities and artistic strategies across a seemingly quite eclectic corpus of films."--Sue Harris, author of Bertrand Blier