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Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France

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  • Soon to be available as an Open Access eBook
  • The first systematic study of French film and TV of the streaming era
  • Offers a pioneering take on new articulations of a transnational identity

Part of the book series: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies (PEFMS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Industry Players: From Product to Brand

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About this book

This book investigates the recently accelerated phenomenon of mainstream French film and serial television’s remarkable popularity not only within but – more novelly for European audiovisual narratives – outside the domestic context. Treating changes that have taken place in France's production landscape during the mass rollout of global streaming platforms as revelatory of broader tendencies in media production and circulation in Europe and beyond, the collection explores emergent influential players (Omar Sy, Camille Cottin, Alexandre Aja and Fanny Herrero), companies such as Netflix and Gaumont, and new genres, identities and representations on screen. It thus draws together a body of new research by international experts in French and European media production to analyse popular film and television series from France through a postnational lens with regards to both economic and institutional norms and to culture as a whole.

This book is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Mary Harrod

  • Maison de la recherche, ED 267, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France

    Raphaëlle Moine

About the editors

Mary Harrod is Associate Professor in French Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She has published widely on topics in contemporary popular film and media from both Europe and the USA, with an emphasis on issues of transnational and/or gender identity. 

Raphaëlle Moine is Professor of Film Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. Her publications include Cinema Genre (2008), Remakes: les films français à Hollywood (2007), A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema (with Alistair Fox, Michel Marie and Hilary Radner; 2015)Vies héroïques: biopics masculins/biopics féminins (2017).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France

  • Editors: Mary Harrod, Raphaëlle Moine

  • Series Title: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39195-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39194-1Published: 31 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39197-2Due: 27 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39195-8Published: 30 January 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2634-615X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6168

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 302

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: European Cinema and TV

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