The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language.

Darren Waldron is Senior Lecturer in French Screen Studies at the University of Manchester

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