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French Horror: Industry, Society and Media provides an overview of French horror film and television of the 21st century, exploring the particularities of the genre on both an industrial and a theoretical basis to identify an essential 'Frenchness'.
The book argues that there are a number of distinct production, formal and socio-cultural characteristics present in these works that mark them as uniquely French, including, among others, critical suspicion of homegrown horror and a corresponding lack of industrial support, attempts to evoke auteurism in certain creative figures, reference to key moments of French history, the framing of body horror and violence and the use of the banlieues.
Through a series of close readings of both major and lesser-known texts, French Horror: Industry, Society and Media illustrates a rise in horror in the 21st century that is distinctly and unapologetically French.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
1. Introduction
2. The Limited History of French Horror
3. New Avenues of Distribution
4. Looking Forward Through Looking Back: Historicizing French Horror
5. Genre and Nation in the Works of Alexandre Aja
6. Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo: Monstrous Mothers and Spaces of Horror
7. Gender and the Body in the Film sof Julia Ducournau and Coralie Fargeat
8. Race and the banlieues
9. Horror Naturelle
10. Lapsing Identities and the Fear of Vanishing Frenchness
11. Conclusion
Apendix
References
