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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrod, Mary, editor.

Moine, Raphaëlle, editor.

Series:

Palgrave European Film and Media Studies, 2634-6168

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture plays, European.

European Film and TV.

Local Subjects:

European Film and TV.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Summary:

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 production landscape during the mass rollout of global streaming platforms as revelatory of broader tendencies in media production and circulation in Europe and beyond, the collection explores emergent influential players (Omar Sy, Camille Cottin, Alexandre Aja and Fanny Herrero), companies such as Netflix and Gaumont, and new genres, identities and representations on screen. It thus draws together a body of new research by international experts in French and European media production to analyse popular film and television series from France through a postnational lens with regards to both economic and institutional norms and to culture as a whole.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783031391958

3031391950