TY - JOUR

T1 - Reassessing the French film industry, past and present

AU - Miller, Elizabeth

PY - 2024/1/8

Y1 - 2024/1/8

N2 - In 2022, not a single French production made it to the top-ten domestic box office, for the first time since 1989. With the Covid-19 pandemic only intensifying pre-existing issues and the rise of streaming rapidly changing the face of global filmmaking, the status of French films both internationally and domestically is in a relatively precarious, but potentially transformative, era. To fully assess the state of the French film industry today, it is crucial to analyse not only the works being produced but also the industrial forces which underpin them and the surrounding ideological debates.

AB - In 2022, not a single French production made it to the top-ten domestic box office, for the first time since 1989. With the Covid-19 pandemic only intensifying pre-existing issues and the rise of streaming rapidly changing the face of global filmmaking, the status of French films both internationally and domestically is in a relatively precarious, but potentially transformative, era. To fully assess the state of the French film industry today, it is crucial to analyse not only the works being produced but also the industrial forces which underpin them and the surrounding ideological debates.

KW - France

KW - Film industry

U2 - 10.1080/26438941.2023.2291910

DO - 10.1080/26438941.2023.2291910

M3 - Book/Film/Article review

JO - French Screen Studies

JF - French Screen Studies

SN - 2643-895X

ER -