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French horror : industry, society and media / Reece Goodall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodall, Reece, author.
- Series:
- 21st century horror.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--France--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Horror television programs--France--History and criticism.
- Horror television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- French Horror: Industry, Society and Media provides an overview of French horror film and television of the 21st century, exploring the particularities of the genre on both an industrial and a theoretical basis to identify an essential ‘Frenchness’. The book argues that there are a number of distinct production, formal and socio-cultural characteristics present in these works that mark them as uniquely French, including, among others, critical suspicion of homegrown horror and a corresponding lack of industrial support, attempts to evoke auteurism in certain creative figures, reference to key moments of French history, the framing of body horror and violence and the use of the banlieues. Through a series of close readings of both major and lesser-known texts, French Horror: Industry, Society and Media illustrates a rise in horror in the 21st century that is distinctly and unapologetically French.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The limited history of French horror
- New avenues of distribution
- Looking forward through looking back
- Genre and nation in the works of Alexandre Aja
- Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo: Monstrous mothers and spaces of horror
- Gender and the body in the works of Julia Ducournau and Coralie Fargeat
- Race and the banlieues
- Horror naturelle
- Lapsing identities and vanishing Frenchness
- Conclusion
- Appendix: List of French horror films and television programmes by release date.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created with the help of AI Metadata Assistant
- ISBN:
- 9781399557177
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