Tough Love
On Lino Ventura, the working-class hero who bridged low pulp and high art
by Richard Porton
posted Jan 18, 2011
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Lino Ventura | Retrospective | French cinema | gangster film | social classes | masculinity | Jean Gabin | Jean-Pierre MelvilleTHE AUTHOR
Richard Porton is one of the editors of Cineaste in New York. He is the author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination (Verso) and the editor of two forthcoming anthologies, On Film Festivals (Wallflower Press) and Arena 1: Cinema and Anarchism (PM Press).
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