French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema

by Charlie Michael

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474424236
• ISBN13: 9781474424233
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"