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29%OFFJonathan Buchsbaum - Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood´s New World Order - 9780231170673 - V9780231170673
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Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood´s New World Order

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Description for Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood´s New World Order Paperback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 424 pages, 10 b&w illustrations and 70 tables and graphs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; APF; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 604.
In Exception Taken, Jonathan Buchsbaum examines the movements that have emerged in opposition to the homogenizing force of Hollywood in global filmmaking. While European cinema was entering a steady decline in the 1980s, France sought to strengthen support for its film industry under the new Mitterrand government. Over the following decades, the country lobbied partners in the European Economic Community to design strategies to protect the audiovisual industries and to resist cultural free-trade pressures in international trade agreements. These struggles to preserve the autonomy of national artistic prerogatives emboldened many countries to question the benefits of accelerated globalization. Led ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Film and Culture Series
Condition
New
Weight
604g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231170673
SKU
V9780231170673
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About Jonathan Buchsbaum
Jonathan Buchsbaum is professor of media studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is the author of Cinema and the Sandinistas: Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua (2003) and Cinema Engage: Film in the Popular Front (1988).

Reviews for Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood´s New World Order
Exception Taken explains and explores a striking state of affairs that most film lovers take for granted: the continued survival, in a globalized, free media market, of minority film cultures. This is one of the best- and most thoroughly researched books on cinema that I have ever read, on one of the most important subjects in contemporary world ... Read more

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