Films With Legs ― Crossing Borders With Foreign Language Films

Rosemary A. Peters is Assistant Professor of French Studies at Louisiana State University, USA, where she teaches primarily 19th-century French literature. Her publications treat Honore de Balzac, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Arthur Rimbaud, Eugene-Francois Vidocq, and Emile Zola; as well as poetry by Joaquin du Bellay, contemporary banlieue rap videos, and films by Robert Bresson and Alfred Hitchcock. Peters has recently completed a book entitled Criminal Fictions: Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France. She is now working on a critical edition and translation of Charles de Foucauld's Reconnaissance au Maroc. Veronique Maisier is Associate Professor of French at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA. She works in the field of 20th-century and contemporary French and Francophone literature, and has published extensively on Albert Cohen and Patrick Chamoiseau, among others. She is the author of L'inspiration picaresque dans l'oeuvre d'Albert Cohen (Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2001), and numerous articles in journals such as The French Review, Dalhousie French Studies, Romance Quarterly, and Etudes Francophones. She is currently working on several essays on Guadeloupean writer Gisele Pineau, and a book project provisionally entitled Stones and Blood: Violence in Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean Literature.