French Blockbusters Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema 1st Edition by Charlie Michael ISBN 9781474424233 1474424236

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ISBN 10: 1474424236
ISBN 13: 9781474424233
Author: Charlie Michael

The 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.

From English-language action vehicles like Valérian 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 (Tolédano & Nakache, 2011), the variously filiated ‘local blockbusters’ from contemporary France brim with the seeds of cultural contradiction, but also with the energy of a forceful counter-history.

Cutting across a swath of recent French-produced cinema, French Blockbusters offers the first book-length consideration of the theoretical implications, historical impact and cultural consequences of a recent grouping of popular films that are rapidly changing what it means to make – or to see – a ‘French’ film today

French Blockbusters Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. The Lang Plan And Its Aftermath

2. Popular French Cinema And ‘Cultural Diversity’

3. The Debatable Destiny Of Amélie Poulain

4. Valérian And The Planet Of A Thousand Critics

5. Countercurrents In French Action Cinema

6. Serial (Bad?) Comedies

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