Exception Taken : How France Has Defied Hollywood's New World Order / Jonathan Buchsbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchsbaum, Jonathan, author.

Series:

Film and culture.

Film and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--France--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture industry--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In Exception Taken, Jonathan Buchsbaum examines the movements that have emerged in opposition to the homogenizing force of Hollywood in global filmmaking. While European cinema was entering a steady decline in the 1980s, France sought to strengthen support for its film industry under the new Mitterrand government. Over the following decades, the country lobbied partners in the European Economic Community to design strategies to protect the audiovisual industries and to resist cultural free-trade pressures in international trade agreements. These struggles to preserve the autonomy of national artistic prerogatives emboldened many countries to question the benefits of accelerated globalization.Led by the energetic minister of culture Jack Lang, France initiated a series of measures to support all sectors of the film industry. Lang introduced laws mandating that state and private television invest in the film industry, effectively replacing the revenue lost from a shrinking theatrical audience for French films. With the formation of the European Union in 1992, Europe passed a new treaty (Maastricht) that extended its legal purview to culture for the first time, setting up the dramatic confrontation over the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) in 1993. Pushed by France, the EU fought the United States over the idea that countries should preserve their right to regulate cultural activity as they saw fit. France and Canada then initiated a campaign to protect cultural diversity within UNESCO that led to the passage of the Convention on Cultural Diversity in 2005. As France pursued these efforts to protect cultural diversity beyond its borders, it also articulated "a certain idea of cinema" that did not simply defend a narrow vision of national cinema. France promoted both commercial cinema and art cinema, disproving announcements of the death of cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. International Domination by The U.S. Film Industry

2. The Lang Years

3. European Film Policy and Television without Frontiers

4. Gatt

5. From Canal+ to Canal

6. Bilan(s)

7. From Cultural Exception to Cultural Diversity

8. Was The Experience Beneficial?

Conclusion

Appendix A. A Note on Sources

Appendix B. Calculation of Automatic Aid in France

Appendix C. The Compte de soutien: A Schematic

Appendix D. Financing French Film: A Schematic

Appendix E. Grants to Art et essai Theaters

Appendix F. Films Chosen for High School Students in Lycéens et apprentis au cinéma

Appendix G. List of Films Aided by Fonds Sud

Appendix H. First Films in French Film Production

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780231543071

0231543077

OCLC:

965745564