Description: Originally published under the title Maurice Tourneur: Râealisateur sans frontiáeres (La Tour Verte, 2015).
Brief description:
Christine Leteux is the author of the biographies Albert Capellani: Cinéaste du romanesque (self-translated into English as Albert Capellani: Pioneer of the Silent Screen) and Maurice Tourneur: Réalisateur sans frontières. She is the translator of several books by British film historian and filmmaker Kevin Brownlow and the winner of the Raymond Chirat Prize, awarded by the Lumière Institute in Lyon.
Review Quotes: "A mammoth undertaking that is impressive on every level. Brilliant. A fascinating study of a complicated figure whose work spans some of the most formative events in French and American cinema."--Richard Neupert, author of French Film History, 1895-1946