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From France with Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy

Book information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2015
ISBN
9780755695188, 9780857739902
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4434136 bytes)
Pages
\270
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 23:57:27

Description

Love stories have always been at the heart of French cinema, but romantic comedies have, until recently, been absent from it. In 2001, the global success of Amelie catalysed a major development in the Western world's second-largest film industry: the appropriation of the 'Hollywood' romantic comedy genre (or Rom-Com a l'Americaine). In From France with Love, Mary Harrod explores this contemporary phenomenon, examining both local hits and films with international status. Using socio-cultural data, box-office figures and analysis of critical reception, she reveals the ways in which these films mirror shifting attitudes towards gender roles within French society, as well as the increasingly important interrelation between French national cinema and transnational filmmaking paradigms.

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