Marco Ferreri: Cinéma is a compact monographic cahier devoted to Ferreri’s work as a filmmaker. Issued by the Maison de la Culture d’Amiens in 1980, the 28-page English-language paperback places cinema—not biography or celebrity—at the centre of its attention. Its inclusion in the institution’s Cahiers series gives the publication a precise cultural setting: a regional French arts organisation presenting a director’s work for concentrated study.

The booklet’s scale distinguishes its approach. Rather than attempting an exhaustive account of Ferreri’s career, it belongs to the concise tradition of criticism and interpretation: a focused publication intended to frame a body of films and invite closer consideration. The directness of the title reinforces that economy. Ferreri’s name and the word “cinéma” are sufficient to define the subject, leaving the cahier to operate as a tightly bounded encounter with his practice.

Ferreri’s films have subsequently been examined in relation to the social and political conditions of postwar Italian culture, as well as for their sharp societal critique. This publication precedes much of that later career-length scholarship. Its significance therefore lies not in comprehensiveness, but in its position as a period document: it records the attention given to Ferreri by a French cultural institution at a particular moment in his working life.

For a collector, the book deserves notice as an example of how film culture circulated through modest institutional publishing. Its interest rests in the conjunction of subject, date, publisher, and series—Ferreri viewed through the editorial framework of the Maison de la Culture d’Amiens. Alongside larger monographs and retrospective studies, this brief cahier offers a different kind of record: concentrated, historically situated, and closely tied to the cultural infrastructure through which serious discussion of cinema reached its readers.