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

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

Hardcover

Series: International Library of the Moving Image

Film Studies

ISBN10: 1784533580
ISBN13: 9781784533588
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 21 2015
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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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