Introduction: ‘Un demi, Jacques, bien frais, avec de la mousse’:
background and early filmmaking
1. Jacques Demy, the Nouvelle Vague and beyond
2. Melodic reconfigurations: Demy’s musicals
3. Fantasy and its disenchantments: fairytale, fable and myth in
the Demy-monde
4. Gender and sexuality in the Demy-monde
5. Mythologising Demy
Concluding remarks
Filmography
Select bibliography
Index
Darren Waldron is Senior Lecturer in French Screen Studies at the University of Manchester
This important work is long overdue' -- (Dr Edward Royle, University of York, Reviews in History, 14/11/2013)
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