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French B Movies
2023
Overview
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.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780253064899, 0253064899, 9780253064912, 0253064910, 0253064902, 9780253064882, 0253064880, 9780253064905
