French B Movies : Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood
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| Title: | French B Movies : Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood |
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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 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. |
| Authors: | David A. Pettersen |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Colonies, Film genres--France, Performing arts, History, Motion pictures--France--History--21st century, Motion pictures--France--History--20th century, Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures, Minorities in motion pictures, Social sciences, Electronic books, Video recordings |
| Categories: | PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Europe / France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9780253064882 9780253064899 9780253064912 |
