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Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France

This book investigates the recently accelerated phenomenon of mainstream French film and serial television's remarkable popularity not only within but - more novelly for European audiovisual narratives - outside the domestic context. Treating changes that have taken place in France's produ...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Harrod, Mary (Editor), Moine, Raphaëlle (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Palgrave European Film and Media Studies,
Subjects:
Motion picture plays, European.
European Film and TV.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The Expanding Imagination of Mainstream French Films and Television Series
  • Part I New Figures, New Voices
  • 2. From ImpersoNation to ImPosture: (Sub)urban Fantasy in Fanny Herrero's Dix pour cent and Drôle
  • 3. Sign Language, Multilingualism and the Postnational Popular Screen: From La Famille Bélier and Marie Heurtin to La Révolution
  • 4. Alexandre Aja: A Postnational Genre Auteur?
  • Part II Embodying the Postnational: Fans, Filmmakers, Action Spectaculars
  • 5. An Alternative to Hollywood? EuropaCorp's "Blockbusters" and the Global Audience
  • 6. The Limits of Luc Besson's "Made-in-France" Blockbusters: From the Transnational to the Postnational in Valerian and Anna
  • 7. Whose Lost Bullet? Netflix, Cultural Politics and the Branding of French Action Cinema
  • Part III French Femininity and (Post)Feminism
  • 8. Charlotte Rampling Made in France: From a National toa Postnational Identity
  • 9. National and Postnational Femininity in Engrenages: The Limits of Empowerment
  • 10. Camille Cottin: A Comic Reappropriation of French Femininity in a Globalised, Postfeminist Culture
  • Part IV Industry Players: From Product to Brand
  • 11. Depuis que le Streaming Existe?: Gaumont and French Cinema in the Streaming Era
  • 12. Netflix's Lupin: Cultural Heritage and Internationalisation in the Age of Global SVoD Platforms
  • 13. An Industry Perspective on Dix pour cent and Ten Percent. Interview with Harold Valentin and Christian Baute.

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