Hello Princess27,
Here's something:
Hollywood’s Influence
http://debatabase.org/debatabase/details.asp?topicID=57
"The success of Hollywood is undoubted; in 1998 the 39 most successful
movies were all American, and in Europe the domestic film industries
struggle to hold even 30% of their national market share. The issue of
America’s cultural influence is perhaps felt most profoundly in
France, where President Jacques Chirac said in 1999 that France
refused 'to consider cultural products like ordinary goods, subject
solely to the law of the market.' This attitude is reflected in large
subsidies (over $500 million) to French creative industries and in
laws which limit the amount of foreign material on television and in
cinemas."
Amazon.com - Movies and Money (by David Puttnam, Neil Watson)
http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067976741X/qid=1045113957/
"Today, 80 to 90 percent of Europe's filmgoers go to U.S. films, and
Hollywood's influence is everywhere."
But compare to this:
French cinema is back in vogue (by Stephen Humphries, November 2001)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1109/p13s1-almo.html
"A little-reported French revolution is under way this year: French
moviegoers led a mass revolt against the ancien régime of Hollywood
productions that have ruled the French box office for the past 15
years. Record numbers of French moviegoers stormed cinemas to see a
rich variety of films produced by a domestic film industry that has
reinvented itself as both a substitute for, and an alternative to,
American films."
And:
"'We prefer to work for our audience' rather than critics, says
director Jeunet, part of a new generation of French filmmakers daring
to break from the traditional style. 'If we try to make some rip-off
of American movies, it won't be very good. We have to keep our
culture.'
A huge influence on these new filmmakers is Luc Besson, director of
Hollywood-influenced movies like 'La Femme Nikita," and "The
Professional.'"
Encore Hollywood - Remaking French Cinema (Book review by Jonathan
Dawson)
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/17/encore.html
Author of "Encore Hollywood" Lucy Mazdon is quoted to say that
classics like "Jean-Luc Godard's À Bout de Souffle (de Beauregard/SNC
1959) themselves feed on and rework themes and motifs from American
noir and hard boiled fiction as well as the movies."
Hope it helps!
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