Nombrilisme vs. Junk Fiction?

Französischer Film und amerikanisches Independent-Kino im Frankreich der 1990er Jahre

Abstract

The article describes characteristic tendencies of French film and US (independent) cinema in France in the 1990s. It illustrates the aesthetic and economic competition and interrelationships between the two film countries. Emphasis is put on Quentin Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction and its reception by the French film press. The 1990s proved to be a transitional period for French film, in which new narrative forms emerged and numerous now influential filmmakers made their first works, but no pronounced ‘branding’ of French film was apparent. In contrast, US cinema proved to be extremely vital and stylistically influential during this period.