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.
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. 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 a recent grouping of
popular films that are rapidly changing what it means to make - or
to see - a 'French' film today.
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