Film/TV Books Online The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman by Susan M. White Winner of the Society for Cinema Studies Dissertation Award Published by Columbia University Press 1995 / 384 pages / illustrations ISBN 0-231-10113-9 / $18.50 paper Illustrated with almost fifty frame enlargements and film publicity shots, The Cinema of Max Ophuls is the most comprehensive, up-to-date work on this great director's more than 200 plays and 21 feature-length films. "The Cinema of Max Ophuls is astonishingly good. It's one of the best, if not the best work, combining film analysis, theory, and criticism by an American that I've read in the last ten years."--Alan Williams, Rutgers University, author of Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking

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