Conclusion
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Will Higbee
Abstract
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book seeks to argue for Mathieu Kassovitz's importance in contemporary French cinema as a filmmaker whose work has engaged with key shifts in French cinema since the early 1990s, such as: new realism, the banlieue film and the 'post-look' spectacular genre film. It establishes Kassovitz as a director who consistently occupies the position of a 'popular' filmmaker, and whose films reflect the increasing prominence of youth at the heart of contemporary popular French culture. In a national cinema that has made strategic use of the auteur's cultural cachet in order to mark its difference from Hollywood, Kassovitz is seen by many to side more closely with the American 'invaders' than the defenders of French cultural exception.
Abstract
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book seeks to argue for Mathieu Kassovitz's importance in contemporary French cinema as a filmmaker whose work has engaged with key shifts in French cinema since the early 1990s, such as: new realism, the banlieue film and the 'post-look' spectacular genre film. It establishes Kassovitz as a director who consistently occupies the position of a 'popular' filmmaker, and whose films reflect the increasing prominence of youth at the heart of contemporary popular French culture. In a national cinema that has made strategic use of the auteur's cultural cachet in order to mark its difference from Hollywood, Kassovitz is seen by many to side more closely with the American 'invaders' than the defenders of French cultural exception.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of plates vi
- Series editors’ foreword vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Dedication x
- Introduction 1
- 1 The popular polemicist 6
- Plates 46
- 2 Social struggles in the popular sphere 49
- 3 Postmodern social fables 95
- 4 Interfacing with Hollywood 127
- 5 Kassovitz 172
- Conclusion 202
- Filmography 205
- Select bibliography 211
- Index 217
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of plates vi
- Series editors’ foreword vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Dedication x
- Introduction 1
- 1 The popular polemicist 6
- Plates 46
- 2 Social struggles in the popular sphere 49
- 3 Postmodern social fables 95
- 4 Interfacing with Hollywood 127
- 5 Kassovitz 172
- Conclusion 202
- Filmography 205
- Select bibliography 211
- Index 217
