Keywords:
Motion pictures-France
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: The Expanding Imagination of Mainstream French Films and Television Series -- From a Transnational to a Postnational Model -- Screening Postnational Frenchness -- Industry, Identity, Ideology -- References -- Part I: New Figures, New Voices -- From ImpersoNation to ImPosture: (Sub)urban Fantasy in Fanny Herrero's Dix pour cent and Drôle -- Streaming Frenchness: New Spaces, New Speech? -- Commodifying Glamour in Dix pour cent -- Standing Up for Multicultural France -- References -- Sign Language, Multilingualism and the Postnational Popular Screen: From La Famille Bélier and Marie Heurtin to La Révolution -- Contemporary French Multilingual Cinema -- The Rise of Sign Language Cinemas -- French Sign Language on Screen -- A Coda on CODA and Beyond -- Conclusion: The Postnational Within and Beyond French Borders -- Appendix: List of LSF Films and Television Series -- References -- Alexandre Aja: A Postnational Genre Auteur? -- Postnational Genre (and) Stardom -- From Nation to Genre in Aja's Oeuvre and Brand -- Crawl and Oxygène as Postnational Genre Texts -- References -- Part II: Embodying the Postnational: Fans, Filmmakers, Action Spectaculars -- An Alternative to Hollywood? EuropaCorp's 'Blockbusters' and the Global Audience -- American-Style Blockbusters? -- A Europeanness as Seductive As It Is Strange -- Conclusion: A Tenuous Ambition, a Downward Slope -- References -- The Limits of Luc Besson's 'Made-in-France' Blockbusters: From the Transnational to the Postnational in Valerian and Anna -- Critical Contexts and Cultural Settings -- The Evolution of Luc Besson's International Productions -- Valerian: Too French for a Global Blockbuster -- Anna: A Past-Facing Postnational Product -- References.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031391958
Series Statement:
Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31132569
DDC:
791.430944
Language:
English
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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