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French Blockbusters : Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema / Charlie Michael.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Traditions in World Cinema : TWCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 26 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474424233
  • 9781474424240
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430944 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.F8 M53 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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.
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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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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.

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In English.

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