The first book on films that screen Parisiennes as city women, as urban residents, or as women fighting to find a place in the city. An exciting new perspective on Parisian women on screen, combining blockbusters movies, art-house films, and films directed by women. A unique focus on women as protagonists in the city of Paris through close film analyses. An innovative analysis combining gender, urban, and film studies, employing an intersectional perspective. A timely chronology of how women in Paris were screened in French cinema from 1957 to the present.