Library Guides: French Studies and Language: Reference sources

Reference sources

Cambridge Companions Online
Cambridge Companions Online offers subject or theme based collections of content within a richly functional, fully cross-searchable online environment. This collection of over 500 titles covers literature, philosophy, religion, classics, cultural studies, and music. The content is updated continuously. From September 2016 titles are available via the Cambridge Core platform alongside Cambridge Books, Histories and Journals.

The Cambridge Companion to French Literature / edited by John D. Lyons
Publication Date: 2015
In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic France.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture / edited by Alex Hughes and Keith Reader
Publication Date: 2002
More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Essential cultural context for students of French, Modern History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.
Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought / edited by Christopher John Murray
Publication Date: 2004
In this wide-ranging guide to twentieth-century French thought, leading scholars offer an authoritative multi-disciplinary analysis of one of the most distinctive and influential traditions in modern thought. Covers philosophy, literary theory, sociology, linguistics, political thought, theology, and more.
The French Cinema Book / edited by Michael Temple and Michael Witt
Publication Date: 2018
An innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history from the 1890s to the 2010s. Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students on courses devoted to topics such as film history, film technology, silent cinema, film theory, and European and French cinema.