French B Movies: Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood Pettersen David A.
French B Movies: Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood Pettersen David A. In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the banlieues, minority communities are…
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French B Movies: Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood Pettersen David A.
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. 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. 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.
David Pettersen traces how, in these works and others, directors fuse features