French Blockbusters : : Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema / / Charlie Michael.
Rethinks the transnational dimensions of the contemporary French film industryThe digitised spectacles conjured by a word like ‘blockbuster’ may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema – long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resist...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 26 B/W illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Traditions in World Cinema -- Foreword -- Introduction: French Blockbusters? -- 1. The Lang Plan and its Aftermath -- 2. Popular French Cinema and ‘Cultural Diversity’ -- 3. The Debatable Destiny of Amélie Poulain -- 4. Valerian and the Planet of a Thousand Critics -- 5. Countercurrents in French Action Cinema -- 6. Serial (Bad?) French Comedies -- Conclusion: A Disputed Heritage -- Index |
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Summary: | Rethinks the transnational dimensions of the contemporary French film industryThe digitised spectacles conjured by a word like ‘blockbuster’ may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema – long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resistance to globalised popular culture. While the Gallic ‘cultural exception’ remains a forceful current to this day, this book shows how the onslaught of Hollywood mega-franchises and new media platforms since the 1980s has also provoked an overtly commercialised response from French producers eager to redefine the stakes and scope of their own traditions.Cutting a swath through recent French-produced cinema, French Blockbusters offers the first book-length consideration of the theoretical implications, historical impact and cultural consequences of recent popular films that are rapidly changing what it means to make – or to see – a ‘French’ film today. From English-language action vehicles like Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Besson, 2017) to revisionist historical films like Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2011) and crowd-pleasing comedies like Intouchables (Toledano & Nakache, 2011), the variously filiated ‘local blockbusters’ from contemporary France brim with the seeds of cultural contradiction, but also with the energy of a counter-history. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781474424240 9783110780420 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781474424240 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Charlie Michael. |