Charlie Michael

French Blockbusters

Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Traditions in World Cinema
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1900
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781474484275
• ISBN-10: 1474484271
• Artikelnr.: 60510784

Autorenporträt

Charlie Michael is Assistant Professor of Film at Georgia Gwinnett College outside Atlanta. He is the author of French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema (EUP, 2019) and the co-editor of the Directory of World Cinema France (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Foreward by Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb
Introduction: French Blockbusters?
Chapter 1: The Lang Plan and its Aftermath
Chapter 2: Popular French Cinema and 'Cultural Diversity'
Chapter 3: The Debatable Destiny of Amélie Poulain
Chapter 4: Valerian and the Planet of a Thousand Critics
Chapter 5: Countercurrents in French Action Cinema
Chapter 6: Serial (Bad?) French Comedies
Conclusion: A Disputed Heritage