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Title: Didn't You Used to Be Depardieu?

Didn't You Used to Be Depardieu?

Film as Cultural Marker in France and Hollywood

by David I. Grossvogel (Author)
©2002 Textbook VIII, 180 Pages
The Arts
Series: Framing Film, Volume 5

Summary

The long love-hate relationship between the United States and France is a curious one that derives from misconceptions, dissimilar economic imperatives, and genuinely different cultural patterns. Didn’t You Used to Be Depardieu? identifies and analyzes these differences through the contrast of American film remakes and the French originals.

Details

Pages
VIII, 180
Year
2002
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820461175
Language
English
Keywords
misconceptions economic imperatives cultural patterns
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2002. VIII, 180 pp.

Biographical notes

David I. Grossvogel (Author)

The Author: David I. Grossvogel is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Cornell University in New York, and the author of many works on modern literature. He has also been a frequent popular-culture commentator in articles and books on Ann Landers, TV Guide, mystery fiction, and film. His recently published Vishnu in Hollywood is a sociological study of the male projected by American movies.

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