Is It French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France / / edited by Mary Harrod and Raphaëlle Moine.

• Superior document: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Harrod, Mary,; Moine, Raphaëlle,
• Place / Publishing House: Cham, Switzerland : : Macmillan Palgrave,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave European film and media studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: The Expanding Imagination of Mainstream French Films and Television Series -- From a Transnational to a Postnational Model -- Screening Postnational Frenchness -- Industry, Identity, Ideology -- References -- Part I: New Figures, New Voices -- From ImpersoNation to ImPosture: (Sub)urban Fantasy in Fanny Herrero's Dix pour cent and Drôle -- Streaming Frenchness: New Spaces, New Speech? -- Commodifying Glamour in Dix pour cent -- Standing Up for Multicultural France -- References -- Sign Language, Multilingualism and the Postnational Popular Screen: From La Famille Bélier and Marie Heurtin to La Révolution -- Contemporary French Multilingual Cinema -- The Rise of Sign Language Cinemas -- French Sign Language on Screen -- A Coda on CODA and Beyond -- Conclusion: The Postnational Within and Beyond French Borders -- Appendix: List of LSF Films and Television Series -- References -- Alexandre Aja: A Postnational Genre Auteur? -- Postnational Genre (and) Stardom -- From Nation to Genre in Aja's Oeuvre and Brand -- Crawl and Oxygène as Postnational Genre Texts -- References -- Part II: Embodying the Postnational: Fans, Filmmakers, Action Spectaculars -- An Alternative to Hollywood? EuropaCorp's 'Blockbusters' and the Global Audience -- American-Style Blockbusters? -- A Europeanness as Seductive As It Is Strange -- Conclusion: A Tenuous Ambition, a Downward Slope -- References -- The Limits of Luc Besson's 'Made-in-France' Blockbusters: From the Transnational to the Postnational in Valerian and Anna -- Critical Contexts and Cultural Settings -- The Evolution of Luc Besson's International Productions -- Valerian: Too French for a Global Blockbuster -- Anna: A Past-Facing Postnational Product -- References.

Whose Lost Bullet? Netflix, Cultural Politics and the Branding of French Action Cinema -- Netflix and the French Action Complex -- Action Cinema and Cultural Translation -- Towards a Postnational Typology -- Appendix: Action-Oriented French-Language Netflix Originals (March 2023) -- Films -- Series -- References -- Part III: French Femininity and (Post)Feminism -- Charlotte Rampling Made in France: From a National to a Postnational Identity -- 'Auto-reverse' Dubbing -- Silent Strength as a Universal Language -- From a Specific to a Generic Form of Otherness -- References -- National and Postnational Femininity in Engrenages: The Limits of Empowerment -- Grit and Glamour: A 'Realist' Series? -- Women at Work in Engrenages: Feminist Intervention or Feminised Utopia? -- Female Sexuality in Engrenages: Body Matters -- National, International, Postnational -- References -- Camille Cottin: A Comic Reappropriation of French Femininity in a Globalised, Postfeminist Culture -- An Ironic Incarnation of Americanised Frenchness -- Camille Cottin's franchouillardise: Between Comic Unruliness and Misogynistic Comedy -- Camille Cottin Abroad: The Disintegration of Her Comic Persona -- References -- Part IV: Industry Players: From Product to Brand -- Depuis que le Streaming Existe?: Gaumont and French Cinema in the Streaming Era -- Dumas Takes the Helm: Gaumont Since Intouchables -- Gaumont and French Cinema in the Streaming Era -- Gaumont's Platform Original Films and Contemporary French Cinema -- References -- Netflix's Lupin: Cultural Heritage and Internationalisation in the Age of Global (S)VoD Platforms -- Internationalisation Practices -- Lupin with and Against Heritage Cinema -- Cultural Heritage and Modelling Fandom -- References -- An Industry Perspective on Dix pour cent and Ten Percent -- Index.