I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR SUPPORT and help with this project since its beginnings at Christ Church, University of Oxford: Reidar Due, Jean-Louis Leutrat and Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues, Adam Marlowe, Michael Sheringham, Will Brown, and David Martin-Jones; the people of Christ Church College, the Maison Française d’Oxford, and the Cinémathèque française. In turning it into the book as it appears today, I acknowledge the important support from Columbia University Press and the invaluable input from its reviewers, and in particular thank Jennifer Crewe and John Belton, along with the continued efforts of Asya Graf, Kathryn Schell, and Joe Abbott. I would like to express special thanks to Dustin Iler, whose diligent reading of the book helped it into its final form. I would also like to thank the lovely and loving Michal McConville and her family for their continued support and encouragement, and my wonderful parents for raising me to pursue a balance between the life of the mind and the world at large.