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New directions in contemporary French comedies : from nation, sex and class to ethnicity, community and the vagaries of the postmodern

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Harrod, Mary and Powrie, Phil (2018) New directions in contemporary French comedies : from nation, sex and class to ethnicity, community and the vagaries of the postmodern. Studies in French Cinema, 18 (1). pp. 1-17. doi:10.1080/14715880.2017.1415420

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Abstract

Comedy, as is the case with many national cinemas, is one of the most dominant genres, if not the most dominant, in French cinema, as Raphaëlle Moine has shown (2014, 233–234). Comedies are even more popular now than they used to be in terms of spectator numbers. Since 2000, for example, French comedies have dominated the best-seller list in France, as can be seen in Table 1, which gives the 27 best-selling films since 2000.1 In the period 2000–2007 there were only 6 French comedies out of the 18 best-sellers in Table 1, representing a third (positions 11, 25, 26, 47, 57, 59), while from 2008–2014 6 out of 9 French films are comedies (positions 2, 3, 19, 51, 68, 96), representing two-thirds. This corresponds to a shift from a 39% share of the total number of French spectators in the first half of the period to an astonishing 72% of the best-selling films since 2008.

Item Type: Journal Item
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Comedy films--France, Comedy films--History and criticism--France, Romantic comedy films--France
Journal or Publication Title: Studies in French Cinema
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 1471-5880
Official Date: 31 January 2018
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31 January 2018Published
7 December 2017Accepted
Volume: 18
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 1-17
DOI: 10.1080/14715880.2017.1415420
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 26 January 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 31 July 2019
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