French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema

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 provoked an overtly commercialised response fro...