Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.

Susan Hayward is Professor of French at the University of Exeter

1. Luc Besson the emerging filmmaker
2. Besson in context
3. Violence as performance
4. Constructing subjectivity in the absence of the father and the mother
Afterword