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Robin Buss Books
Robin Buss was a dedicated translator, journalist, and film critic with a profound affinity for French culture. His extensive linguistic skills, encompassing French, Russian, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, and Welsh, allowed him to delve deeply into the heart of European literature and cinema. Buss became a preeminent translator of classic French fiction, making the works of seminal authors accessible to English-speaking readers. Furthermore, as a film critic, he championed French film noir and authored works on European cinema.
From the seething internal aftermath of the German Occupation to the stylish radicalism of the New Wave and the slick post-modern fantasies of today, French directors such as Melville, Becker, Godard, Truffaut, and Chabrol have adapted American crime movie conventions to create their own cinema of good and evil. Fully illustrated with stills from a wide selection of movies, French Film Noir also contains a complete filmography listing over 100 films. Robin Buss writes for several newspapers and magazines. He has translated Jean Cocteau's The Art of Cinema for Marion Boyars. He lives in the UK.
