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'Money can't buy me love' : radical right-wing populism in French romantic comedies of the 2010s
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Harrod, Mary (2020) 'Money can't buy me love' : radical right-wing populism in French romantic comedies of the 2010s. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 18 (1). doi:10.1080/17400309.2019.1664055 ISSN 1740-0309.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2019.1664055
Abstract
This article surveys developments in the French romantic comedy of the 2010s from a cultural studies perspective. Specifically, it considers how the particularities identifiable in the French genre following its emergence in the 1990s and consolidation by the end of the 2000s have evolved during the next decade. It argues that the most striking new trend comprises a more domestically circumscribed orbit for the genre, with notably fewer export successes, paralleled by the increased prominence of nationalistically inflected and/or otherwise broadly retreatist themes, notably in relation to 'globalizing’ conformist (neo-liberal) values. These traits manifest themselves through elements such as explicit celebrations of French culture, especially that of the northern French provinces that are the historical heartland of the right; obsessive representations and validations of heterosexual family structures, including through homophobic elements; a marked accentuation of bromance and other misogynistic elements in the genre; and a parodic if not mocking attitude towards generic and cultural values coded as North American – albeit one typically embedded in layers of ‘self-reflexive’ postmodern irony. I argue that this last tendency, constituting one of the complexities of the hybrid French genre à l’américaine, is useful for interrogating the very concept of radical ideology – and its antithesis, conformity – for their different meanings in diverse geo-cultural contexts.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Romantic comedy films -- France -- 21st century, Right and left (Political science) in literature -- France -- 21st century, Motion pictures -- France -- 21st century, Motion pictures -- Political aspects, Conservatism -- France, Populism -- France | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | New Review of Film and Television Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1740-0309 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 18 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/17400309.2019.1664055 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in New Review of Film and Television Studies on 14 Jan 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17400309.2019.1664055 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Description: | Special Issue on ‘Radical Romantic Comedy' |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 September 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 July 2021 | ||||||||
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