Department of French
Dr Laura McMahon
College:Gonville & Caius College Positions:
College Lecturer
Department of French Postal Address:
Gonville & Caius College
Trinity Street
CAMBRIDGE CB2 1TAEmail:
lcm31@cam.ac.uk
Phone:
Fax:
(+44) (0)1223 335062
Laura McMahon specializes in French cinema and contemporary French philosophy. Her current research project explores the idea of community in recent French and Francophone film, including work by Godard, Varda, Klotz, the Dardennes, Assayas, des Pallières and Denis. She is the author of Cinema and Contact: The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis (Legenda, 2012), and the co-editor of Animal Life and the Moving Image (with Michael Lawrence; forthcoming 2014) and Rhythms: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Culture (with Elizabeth Lindley; Peter Lang, 2008).
