Le Spectateur z茅ro: Conversation sur le montage (The Spectator Zero: A Conversation About Film Editing), co-written by Julien Suaudeau, lecturer in French and Francophone Studies and director of Film Studies, recently received the 2020 Best French Book on Film award from the Syndicat 贵谤补苍莽补颈蝉 de la Critique de Cin茅ma. Suaudeau co-wrote the book with the film editor Yann Dedet.
As a filmmaker, Suaudeau has directed documentaries and short fiction films, and has published extensively on film history, film theory, and French cinema in Positif.
In addition to writing about film, Suaudeau is the author of four novels: Dawa (2014), Le 贵谤补苍莽补颈蝉 (2015), Ni le feu ni la foudre (2016), and Le Sang noir des hommes (2019). His fiction work focuses on contemporary France seen through the lenses of colonial and postcolonial history, immigration, 濒补茂肠颈迟茅, terrorism, and socioeconomic inequalities. His books explore the blind spots of the Great French Narrative, in search of repressed voices and counter-accounts.