Since the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with his work in which Keith Tester argues that Rohmer is not the na�ve realist he is often claimed to be. Instead,�his films are revealed as a sustained exercise in Catholic theology.

Biography

KEITH TESTER�is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK,�and has been Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory at LaTrobe University in Australia. He has published widely across the field of cultural sociology.