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"La Reine Margot" is a modern film, and a big scale costume drama. Examining this film as a part of an influential cycle of French historical 'super-productions', this book explores its social and political contexts.

About the Author

Julianne Pidduck is Lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Research, Lancaster University. Author of 'Contemporary Costume Film: Space, Place and the Past'.

Reviews

SPLICEThe Cine-Files books assiduously shepard the reader through the text, cross-referencing each observation with earlier remarks and Pidduck leavens her discussion with nicely deployed costume detail...and an attention to the extreme physicality of Chereau's film.' Richard Armstrong