{"product_id":"french-b-movies","title":"French B Movies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ebanlieues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, minority communities are turning to American culture, history, and theory to make their own voices, cultures, and histories visible. Filmmakers have followed suit, turning to Hollywood genre conventions to challenge notions of identity, belonging, and marginalization in mainstream French film.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrench B Movies\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that French \u003ci\u003ebanlieue\u003c\/i\u003e 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. This gritty style appears in popular arthouse films such as Mathieu Kassovitz's \u003ci\u003eLa Haine \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBande de filles \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e) along with the major Netflix hit series \u003ci\u003eLupin\u003c\/i\u003e. David Pettersen traces how, in these works and others, directors fuse features of \u003ci\u003ebanlieue \u003c\/i\u003ecinema with genre formulas associated with both Hollywood and Black cultural models, as well as how transnational genre hybridizations, such as B movies, have become part of the ecosystem of the French film industry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy combining film analysis, cultural history, critical theory, and industry studies, \u003ci\u003eFrench B Movies\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how featuring \u003ci\u003ebanlieues \u003c\/i\u003eis as much about trying to imagine new identities and production models for French cinema as it is about representation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229591294296,"sku":"9780253064899","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780253064899.jpg?v=1778531440","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/french-b-movies","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}