French blockbusters : cultural politics of a transnational cinema /

The digitised spectacles conjured by a word like `blockbuster' may create a certain cognitive dissonance with received ideas about French cinema - long celebrated as a model for philosophical, economic and aesthetic resistance to globalised popular culture. While the Gallic `cultural exception&...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Michael, Charlie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Series:Traditions in world cinema.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Blockbusters (Motion pictures) > France > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > France.
Transnationalism in motion pictures.
Superproductions > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Transnationalisme au cinéma.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Blockbusters (Motion pictures)
Motion pictures > Political aspects.
France.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Lang Plan and its aftermath
  • Popular French cinema and 'cultural diversity'
  • The debatable destiny of Amelie Poulain
  • Valerian and the planet of a thousand critics
  • Countercurrents in French action cinema
  • Serial (bad?) French comedies
  • A disputed heritage

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