附註:Filmography: pages 231-235.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.
Introduction : Disneyland comes home to Paris -- Comic strips and cultural sterotypes : Alain Resnais's I want to go home -- Jim McBride's "Breathless in L.A." : remaking Jean-Luc Godard's narrative of gender -- Three takes on motherhood, masculinity, and marriage : Serreau's original, Nimoy's remake, and Ardolino's sequel -- At the Franco-American crossroads of gender and culture : where feminism and sexism intersect -- Jean-Charles Tacchella's and Joel Schumacher's Kissing cousins : in/fidelity in family and film -- Other ways of looking : re-visions of feminism and film theory in François Truffaut's and Blake Edwards's The man who loved women -- Conclusion : contemporary French-to-American comedy or the compulsion to compare.