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02745aam a2200325 i 4500 001 7806F6EC209B11EABA878C2E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191217010151 008 190711s2019 stka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1474424236 020 $a 9781474424233 035 $a (OCoLC)1110437639 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d YDX $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a e-fr--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e-fr 050 4 $a PN1993.5.F8 $b M53 2019 082 04 $a 791.430944 $2 23 100 1 $a Michael, Charlie, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013027445 245 10 $a French blockbusters : $b cultural politics of a transnational cinema / $c Charlie Michael. 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Edinburgh University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xvii, 236 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Traditions in World Cinema 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a 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' remains a forceful current to this day, this book shows how the onslaught of Hollywood mega-franchises and new media platforms since the 1980s has also provoked an overtly commercialised response from French producers eager to redefine the stakes and scope of their own traditions. 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 recent popular films that are rapidly changing what it means to make - or to see - a `French' film today. From English-language action vehicles like Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Besson, 2017) to revisionist historical films like Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2011) and crowd-pleasing comedies like Intouchables (Toledano & Nakache, 2011), the variously filiated `local blockbusters' from contemporary France brim with the seeds of cultural contradiction, but also with the energy of a forceful counter-history. 650 0 $a Blockbusters (Motion pictures) $z France $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Political aspects $z France. 650 0 $a Transnationalism in motion pictures. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2015001932 830 0 $a Traditions in world cinema. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005058764 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217025306.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7806F6EC209B11EABA878C2E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search