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French B Movies: Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood (New Directions in National Cinemas)

David A. Pettersen

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Description:In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the banlieues, minority communities are turning to American culture, history, and theory to make their own voices, cultures, and histories visible. Filmmakers have followed suit, turning to Hollywood genre conventions to challenge notions of identity, belonging, and marginalization in mainstream French film.French B-Movies proposes that French banlieue films, far from being a fringe genre, offer a privileged site from which to understand the current state of the French film industry in an age of globalization. This gritty new style appears in popular arthouse films such as Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine and Bande de filles (Girlhood) along with the major Netflix hit series Lupin. David Pettersen traces how, in these works and others, directors fuse features of banlieue cinema with genre formulas associated with both Hollywood and Black cultural models, as well as how transnational genre hybridizations, such as B-movies, have become part of the ecosystem of the French film industry.By combining film analysis, cultural history, critical theory, and industry studies, French B-Movies reveals how featuring banlieues is as much about trying to imagine new identities and production models for French cinema as it is about representation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with French B Movies: Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood (New Directions in National Cinemas). To get started finding French B Movies: Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood (New Directions in National Cinemas), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the banlieues, minority communities are turning to American culture, history, and theory to make their own voices, cultures, and histories visible. Filmmakers have followed suit, turning to Hollywood genre conventions to challenge notions of identity, belonging, and marginalization in mainstream French film.French B-Movies proposes that French banlieue films, far from being a fringe genre, offer a privileged site from which to understand the current state of the French film industry in an age of globalization. This gritty new style appears in popular arthouse films such as Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine and Bande de filles (Girlhood) along with the major Netflix hit series Lupin. David Pettersen traces how, in these works and others, directors fuse features of banlieue cinema with genre formulas associated with both Hollywood and Black cultural models, as well as how transnational genre hybridizations, such as B-movies, have become part of the ecosystem of the French film industry.By combining film analysis, cultural history, critical theory, and industry studies, French B-Movies reveals how featuring banlieues is as much about trying to imagine new identities and production models for French cinema as it is about representation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with French B Movies: Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood (New Directions in National Cinemas). To get started finding French B Movies: Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood (New Directions in National Cinemas), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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