EFP 70: Professor Sue Harris on Bertrand Blier

<div><div><div><div><div>On this episode of the podcast, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Professor Sue Harris. </div><div><br></div><div>Sue is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London and an internationally-renowned specialist in French cinema. She has also published noted volumes on the Hollywood film musical, film stardom and production design.</div><div><br></div><div>Sue is a trustee and collaborator of the long-running, UK-wide French Film Festival. During this year’s Festival, Sue sat down with Pasquale to discuss the controversial Oscar-winning French filmmaker Bertrand Blier who sadly passed away in January at the age of 85 and who was the subject of a special tribute.</div><div><br></div><div>Sue is a foundational Blier scholar, one of the first writers anywhere to take the director’s work seriously. Her first solo authored monograph was a ground-breaking study of his films which was based on her PhD thesis.</div><div><br></div><div>Blier...