Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France (Palgrave European Film and Media Studies)

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction: The Expanding Imagination of Mainstream French Films and Television Series
	From a Transnational to a Postnational Model
	Screening Postnational Frenchness
	Industry, Identity, Ideology
	References
Part I: New Figures, New Voices
	From ImpersoNation to ImPosture: (Sub)urban Fantasy in Fanny Herrero’s Dix pour cent and Drôle
		Streaming Frenchness: New Spaces, New Speech?
		Commodifying Glamour in Dix pour cent
		Standing Up for Multicultural France
		References
	Sign Language, Multilingualism and the Postnational Popular Screen: From La Famille Bélier and Marie Heurtin to La Révolution
		Contemporary French Multilingual Cinema
		The Rise of Sign Language Cinemas
		French Sign Language on Screen
		A Coda on CODA and Beyond
		Conclusion: The Postnational Within and Beyond French Borders
		Appendix: List of LSF Films and Television Series
		References
	Alexandre Aja: A Postnational Genre Auteur?
		Postnational Genre (and) Stardom
		From Nation to Genre in Aja’s Oeuvre and Brand
		Crawl and Oxygène as Postnational Genre Texts
		References
Part II: Embodying the Postnational: Fans, Filmmakers, Action Spectaculars
	An Alternative to Hollywood? EuropaCorp’s ‘Blockbusters’ and the Global Audience
		American-Style Blockbusters?
		A Europeanness as Seductive As It Is Strange
		Conclusion: A Tenuous Ambition, a Downward Slope
		References
	The Limits of Luc Besson’s ‘Made-in-France’ Blockbusters: From the Transnational to the Postnational in Valerian and Anna
		Critical Contexts and Cultural Settings
		The Evolution of Luc Besson’s International Productions
		Valerian: Too French for a Global Blockbuster
		Anna: A Past-Facing Postnational Product
		References
	Whose Lost Bullet? Netflix, Cultural Politics and the Branding of French Action Cinema
		Netflix and the French Action Complex
		Action Cinema and Cultural Translation
		Towards a Postnational Typology
		Appendix: Action-Oriented French-Language Netflix Originals (March 2023)
			Films
			Series
		References
Part III: French Femininity and (Post)Feminism
	Charlotte Rampling Made in France: From a National to a Postnational Identity
		‘Auto-reverse’ Dubbing
		Silent Strength as a Universal Language
		From a Specific to a Generic Form of Otherness
		References
	National and Postnational Femininity in Engrenages: The Limits of Empowerment
		Grit and Glamour: A ‘Realist’ Series?
		Women at Work in Engrenages: Feminist Intervention or Feminised Utopia?
		Female Sexuality in Engrenages: Body Matters
		National, International, Postnational
		References
	Camille Cottin: A Comic Reappropriation of French Femininity in a Globalised, Postfeminist Culture
		An Ironic Incarnation of Americanised Frenchness
		Camille Cottin’s franchouillardise: Between Comic Unruliness and Misogynistic Comedy
		Camille Cottin Abroad: The Disintegration of Her Comic Persona
		References
Part IV: Industry Players: From Product to Brand
	Depuis que le Streaming Existe?: Gaumont and French Cinema in the Streaming Era
		Dumas Takes the Helm: Gaumont Since Intouchables
		Gaumont and French Cinema in the Streaming Era
		Gaumont’s Platform Original Films and Contemporary French Cinema
		References
	Netflix’s Lupin: Cultural Heritage and Internationalisation in the Age of Global (S)VoD Platforms
		Internationalisation Practices
		Lupin with and Against Heritage Cinema
		Cultural Heritage and Modelling Fandom
		References
	An Industry Perspective on Dix pour cent and Ten Percent
Index