Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France

This book investigates the recently accelerated phenomenon of mainstream French film and serial television's remarkable popularitynot onlywithinbut- more novelly for European audiovisual narratives - outside the domestic context. Treating changes that have taken place inFrance'sproduction landscape during the mass rollout of global streaming platforms asrevelatoryof broader tendencies in media production and circulation in Europe and beyond, the collection explores emergent influential players (Omar Sy, Camille Cottin, Alexandre Ajaand Fanny Herrero), companies such as Netflix and Gaumont, and new genres, identities and representations on screen. It thus draws together a body of new research by international experts in French and European media production to analyse popular film and television seriesfrom Francethrough a postnational lens with regards to both economic and institutional norms and to culture as a whole. This book is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License vialink.springer.com.