Producing the Post-National Popular: The Expanding Imagination of Popular French Films and Television Series

《制作后国民流行》是一个国际网络，它结合了对法国主流电影和电视连续剧跨国流行这一最近日益增长的现象的不同研究视角，例如《艾美莉》、《运输者》系列、《玫瑰人生》、《艺术家和贱民》等电影，以及包括《螺旋》、《归来的人》、《见证者》和《凡尔赛》等电视节目。该项目的一个主要推动力是纠正对欧洲银幕和其他产品和文化的研究的平衡，目前这些产品和文化严重倾向于艺术，而不是流行的文化艺术品和趋势。尤其是在电影方面，至少自20世纪60年代新浪潮以来，欧洲认同一直被等同于高级艺术，当时法国在国际上可见的、有影响力的作者主义电影制作和批评帮助使电影研究合法化并塑造了电影研究。该项目旨在通过在不仅是民族的，而且是欧洲的当代景观中理解法国的视听输出，拓宽法国文化认同的范围，反映和构建这些认同。为此，它借鉴了在各种国际背景下进行的研究，特别强调法国本身，但也包括英国和美国，在这些国家，相关电影和电视剧往往非常受欢迎。这是因为，认识到主流国内产品不仅在国内，而且在国外都被广泛看到，这扩大了我们理解它们的影响范围，特别是通过认识到它们以新的方式塑造法国国家的外部观点的能力。除了考虑电影和电视连续剧的制作、发行和接受，该网络还旨在批判性地反思在不同国家背景下研究这些产品的做法。例如，法国对英语文化研究方法论的晚期和不完全的挪用，可以看出是导致那里的主流文本被忽视的原因之一。与此同时，在法国以外，寻找评论等关键材料的实际困难，以及缺乏语言能力，是他们处于劣势的明显因素。该网络试图挖掘哪些其他偶然因素可能限制了对一个需要学术关注的领域的研究，以期超越这些因素。该网络的核心团队由玛丽·哈罗德博士(华威，Pi)和拉斐尔·莫因教授(巴黎新大学3，Co-I)组成，他们都是法国流行电影的知名学者，都是跨国构思的；吉内特·文森多教授(伦敦国王学院)，法国电影和媒体文化的全面专家；以及为法国文化服务的骑士德·L的奥德勒·艺术和文学；Phil Powrie教授(萨里大学)，专门研究法语和其他电影，是《法国电影研究》杂志的联合创始主编；阿拉斯泰尔·菲利普斯博士(华威大学)，法国和东亚电影学者，重点是后国家方法；Kira Kitsopanidou教授(索邦新巴黎3)，专门研究法国电影和电视的工业化方法；该项目将结合文化批评和美学分析，结合文化批评和美学分析，特别关注意识形态问题如何与文化叙事所采用的形式相联系。这需要利用不同的专业知识，从视觉和话语分析--包括上下文材料--到市场趋势的量化分析，以及具体的语言能力和对社会语言范式的熟悉。其主要目标之一是促进这些不同学科和/或知识领域之间的对话。

'Producing the Post-National Popular' is an international network combining diverse research perspectives on the recent and growing phenomenon of mainstream French films' and television series' transnational popularity, as evidenced by films such as Amelie, The Transporter series, La Vie en rose, The Artist and Untouchable and television shows including Spiral, The Returned, Witnesses and Versailles. A major impetus of the project is to redress the balance of research on European screen and other products and cultures, currently heavily skewed in favour of 'art' over popular cultural artefacts and trends. In cinema in particular, European identity has been equated with high art at least since the 1960s New Wave, when France's internationally visible and influential auteurist filmmaking and criticism helped legitimise and shape Film Studies. This project seeks to widen the spectrum of French cultural identities reflected and constructed by the nation's audiovisual output by understanding these within a contemporary landscape that is not merely national but European. To this end, it draws on research being carried out in a variety of international contexts, with particular emphasis on France itself but also the UK and the USA, where relevant films and TV series have tended to be markedly popular. This is because recognising mainstream domestic products as widely seen not only at home but also abroad expands how we understand their scope of influence, notably by recognising their capacity to shape external views of the French nation in new ways.Beyond considering the production, circulation and reception of films and television series, the network also aims to reflect critically on practices for studying these in different national contexts. For instance, the late and still incomplete appropriation of 'anglophone' Cultural Studies methodologies in France can be seen to have contributed to the neglect of mainstream texts there. Outside France, meanwhile, practical difficulties sourcing critical materials such as reviews and the absence of linguistic competence are obvious factors in their under-privileging. This network seeks to unearth what other contingent factors may be limiting research into an area demanding scholarly attention, with a view to moving beyond these.The network's core team consists of Dr. Mary Harrod (Warwick, PI) and Professor Raphaëlle Moine (Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Co-I), both established scholars of French popular cinema, conceived transnationally; Professor Ginette Vincendeau (King's College London), an expert in French cinema and media culture across the board and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres for services to French culture; Professor Phil Powrie (University of Surrey), specialising in French and other cinemas and the co-founding editor of the journal Studies in French Cinema; Dr. Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick), a scholar of French and East Asian cinemas with an emphasis on post-national approaches; Professor Kira Kitsopanidou (Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), specialising in industrial approaches to French cinema and television; and Dr. Belén Vidal (King's College London), an expert on post-national European genre cinema.The project will combine cultural criticism, attendant to narratives' status as mediators of the social (for instance, national and transnational identities and attitudes towards these, including as they intersect with other identity categories), with aesthetic analysis, paying particular attention to how issues of ideology are linked to the forms adopted by cultural narratives. This requires drawing on varied specialist expertise, from visual and discourse analysis - including of contextual material - to quantitative analysis of market trends, alongside specific linguistic competencies and familiarity with socio-linguistic paradigms. One of its principal goals is to promote dialogue across these various disciplines and/or areas of knowledge.