Florence Jacobowitz effectively brings together insights gleaned from a wide range of scholarly, journalistic, and filmic sources. Her writing style is exquisite, making the book accessible to a wide audience and a pleasure to read for academics. The descriptions of ideas, films, performance details, and more are clear and engaging; the observations about the films also reveal a significant depth of insight and compassion.

~Cynthia Baron, author of Modern Acting: The Lost Chapter of American Film and Theatre

Close analyses of an impressive range of the star’s challenging films underpin the argument for the distinctiveness of Isabelle Huppert’s performance style here. These accessible, informative accounts locate Huppert in the context of her contemporary collaborators and explore how we can read her work against earlier modes of star performance.

~Edward Gallafent, professor emeritus of film studies, University of Warwick

Florence Jacobowitz provides us with a compelling, innovative, in-depth study of this wonderfully intelligent and versatile actor. Isabelle Huppert is often perceived as cold and detached as a performer, but she is so much more than that, and Jacobowitz’s meticulous investigation into what she terms Huppert’s modernist performance style deeply enriches our understanding and appreciation of this complex artist.

~Susan Hayward, professor emerita, University of Exeter

In a deft examination of Isabelle Huppert’s modernist performances, Jacobowitz reveals how Huppert’s enigmatic, yet creative acting styles elicit viewers’ critical engagements with cinema and the feminine.

~Homer B. Pettey, professor emeritus, University of Arizona, and coeditor of French Literature on Screen

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