French B Movies av David A. Pettersen

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<b>In the impoverished outskirts of French cities, known as the </b><b><i>banlieues</i></b><b>, 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.<br/></b><b><i><br/></i></b><i>French B Movies</i> proposes that French <i>banlieue</i> 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 <i>La Haine </i>and <i>Bande de filles </i>(<i>Girlhood</i>) along with the major Netflix hit series <i>Lupin</i>. David Pettersen traces how, in these works and others, directors fuse features of <i>banlieue </i>cinema with genre formulas associated with both Hollywood and Bla