Emma Wilson

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  • Atom Egoyan (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2009) ISBN   978-0-252-07620-6
  • Alain Resnais (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006) ISBN   978-0-7190-6406-7
  • Cinema's Missing Children (Wallflower, 2003)
  • Memory and Survival: The French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski (Oxford: Legenda, 2000)
  • French Cinema since 1950: Personal Histories (Duckworth, 1999) ISBN   0-7156-2849-6
  • Sexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Cixous and Tournier (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) ISBN   0-19-815885-8
  • (editor) Sexuality and Masquerade: The Dedalus Book of Sexual Ambiguity (Dedalus, 1996)
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    Further reading

    Emma Wilson
    FBA
    Born1967 (age 5657)
    NationalityBritish
    Occupation(s)Academic, writer
    Parent Jacqueline Wilson
    Awards Ordre des Palmes académiques (Chevalier, 2009)
    Academic background
    Education Surbiton High School
    Alma mater Newnham College, University of Cambridge (BA, Ph.D)
    Thesis The pain of the pleasure of the text: Tournier, reading and sexuality  (1991)