Titlebook: Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France; Mary Harrod,Rapha?lle Moine Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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Sign Language, Multilingualism and the Postnational Popular Screen: From , and , to French through a postnational lens. The chapter explores how these LSF texts challenge received norms of Frenchness, their connection to the French language and what ‘national language’ means for a nation that was always already multilingual.

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An Alternative to Hollywood? EuropaCorp’s ‘Blockbusters’ and the Global Audiencesers speaking in English on the IMDb website. In particular, it will return to the idea that these transnational prototypes can be seen as ‘alternatives’ to Hollywood cinema, based on the abundant sources available in the ‘user reviews’ section of the IMDb website.

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National and Postnational Femininity in ,: The Limits of Empowermentspite their ostensibly empowered roles, the two female protagonists embody conservative concepts of femininity. It is argued that this sexual stereotyping, alongside a lack of racial diversity, ultimately maintains the series within a national tradition and has limited its postnational reach.

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The Limits of Luc Besson’s ‘Made-in-France’ Blockbusters: From the Transnational to the Postnationalfter the global success of . (Besson, 2014) had revived the potential of the EuropaCorp transnational production model, . and . have shown the limits of Besson’s brand and filmmaking methods. It also identifies reasons behind their mixed reception and links their disappointing results to the implosion of EuropaCorp in 2020.

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An Industry Perspective on , and d internationally; how different industry actors, both national and transnational, influenced this; and factors shaping the British adaptation. Discussion also ranged beyond the specific case study to discuss hindrances and affordances of the current global industry for producing French series, notably postnational ones.