Lynn A. Higgins

Selected Publications

• BOOKS

  Alain Resnais, Interviews (Editor and Introductory essay). University Press of Mississippi "Conversations with Filmmakers" series, 2021.
   

• Bertrand Tavernier, Interviews (Introductory essay; interviews co-edited with T. Jefferson Klline). University Press of Mississippi "Conversations with Filmmakers" series, 2016; pb 2022.

• Bertrand Tavernier. Manchester U. Press (U.K.), Palgrave Macmillan (U.S.), 2011; pb 2015.

   

• New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France. U. of Nebraska Press, 1996. Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize for best book in French & Francophone Studies, 1997.

• Rape and Representation (Contributor, Co-edited with Brenda R. Silver). Columbia U. Press, 1991; pb 1993.

• Parables of Theory: Jean Ricardou's Metafiction. Summa Publications, 1984.

• ARTICLES

  "The 1970s Mode d'Emploi: Three Films by Georges Perec," Yale French Studies #143 (2024), 137-159.

• "Alain Resnais, Anti-Illusionist," and "Bertrand Tavernier: 'Un film est comme un repas' ('A film is like a meal)," The Art of  Directing: A Concise Dictionary of French Film Directors, Ed. Michael Abecassis et al.. Peter Lang, 2023.

• "Hommage à Bertrand Tavernier : du genre filmique au genre," Le Genre & L'Ecran, June 2021. Available at : https://www.genre-ecran.net/?Hommage-a-Bertrand-Tavernier (4,600 words).

• "Rereading '93 in '21" [on Victor Hugo]. South Central Review, vol. 38.2-3 (fall 2021), 84-89.

• "French and American Feminists Write About #MeToo," South Central Review 37:1 (Spring 2020): 14-28. 

• "Modiano at the Movies," Yale French Studies #133 (summer 2018), 113-26.

• "Becoming a Song: Sound, Memory, and Cinema History in Michael Haneke's Amour," South Central Review 33: 2 (summer 2016): 80-95."

• "A La Recherche de témoins: Le 17 Octobre, 1961 et ses représentations," in Mémoires Occupées: Fictions Françaises et Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Marc Dambre, ed., Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013, 207-214.

• "Irène Némirovsky's David Golder from Novel to Film and Back," Yale French Studies #121 (2012), 54-68.

• "Lieux de mémoire et géographie imaginaire dans Dora Bruder," Cahiers du Centre de Recherche: Etudes sur le roman du second demi-siècle, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle (2005), 397-405. 

• "Documentary in an age of Terror," South Central Review 22:2 (2005), 20-38.

• "Tavernier's Doubt," Studia Filmoznawcze (Warsaw, Poland), special issue on Film and Religion, spring 2004.

   

   

• "Women Filmmakers Remember the Occupation" [on Chantal Akerman and Diane Kurys], Modern and Contemporary France (UK), special issue on "Gendering the Occupation," vol. 7, no. 1 (1999).

• "The Barbie Affair and the Trials of Memory," in Fascism's Return: Scandal, Revision and Ideology Since 1980, edited by Richard J. Golsan. University of Nebraska Press, 1999

• "Pagnol and the Paradoxes of Frenchness," in Identitiy Papers: Scenes of Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France, Tom Conley & Steven Ungar, eds. University of Minnesota Press, 1996.