The Other French New Wave New Directions, Forgotten Directors

R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature emeritus at Clemson University, and the author or editor of more than sixty books on late medieval literature, film history, and adaptation studies.  With Julie Grossman, he currently edits the Palgrave Studies In Adaptation And Visual Culture .  He also serves as the editor of the South Atlantic Review and the Tennessee Williams Annual Review . 

Charlie Michael is Assistant Professor of Film & Media at Emory University. He is the author of French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2019) and the co-editor of the Directory of World Cinema: France (Intellect, 2013). His most recent book is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Youth, Race, and the Hypertext (Routledge, 2025).