David Pettersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5771972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Pettersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Pettersen |
| SIGNATURE | PETTERSEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Netflix’s Lupin
This chapter considers questions of media internationalisation and localisation in the contemporary age of globalised subscription video-on-demand ((S)VoD) platforms through a case study of Netflix’s French series Lupin (2020–). The author examines the production history of the series and the adaptation practices of Netflix’s collaboration with the French studio Gaumont to transform the source novels into a star vehicle for France’s best-known Bl…
Theorizing Transregional Cinemas
Theorizing Transregional Cinemas David Pettersen (bio) Niels Niessen. Miraculous Realism: The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord. Albany: SUNY Press, 2020. 338 pages. $95 hardcover. $33.95 paperback. Niels Niessen's new book Miraculous Realism is a fascinating study of films from the French-speaking part of Belgium (the Wallonia region) and the industrial French north (the city of Lille and the Nord–Pas de Calais region). The book fills an important g…
Genre and Universalism in the Films of Rachid Bouchareb
Transnational blackface, neo-minstrelsy and the ‘French Eddie Murphy’ in Intouchables
The 2011 French film Intouchables is an interracial buddy film about a black caregiver from the suburbs and a quadriplegic white aristocrat. Éric Tolédano and Olivier Nakache’s film broke box office records in France and abroad, becoming the second highest grossing French film of all time in domestic release and the most successful non-English film on the export market. However, the film’s critical reception was mixed; some celebrated the film’s …
Interview with Christie Mcdonald and Susan Rubin Suleiman
French Global: A New Approach from Literary History, published in September 2011 by Columbia University Press, offers an innovative new look at the breadth of literary expression in French. Focusing on writers from all over the world, French Global's twenty-nine essays discuss works that span some 1200 years of literary history. Co-editors Christie McDonald (Smith Professor of French Language and Literature, Harvard University) and Susan Rubin Su…
Transnational blackface, neo-minstrelsy and the ‘French Eddie Murphy’ in Intouchables
The 2011 French film Intouchables is an interracial buddy film about a black caregiver from the suburbs and a quadriplegic white aristocrat. Éric Tolédano and Olivier Nakache’s film broke box office records in France and abroad, becoming the second highest grossing French film of all time in domestic release and the most successful non-English film on the export market. However, the film’s critical reception was mixed; some celebrated the film’s …
Interview with Christie Mcdonald and Susan Rubin Suleiman
French Global: A New Approach from Literary History, published in September 2011 by Columbia University Press, offers an innovative new look at the breadth of literary expression in French. Focusing on writers from all over the world, French Global's twenty-nine essays discuss works that span some 1200 years of literary history. Co-editors Christie McDonald (Smith Professor of French Language and Literature, Harvard University) and Susan Rubin Su…
Transnational blackface, neo-minstrelsy and the ‘French Eddie Murphy’ in Intouchables
The 2011 French film Intouchables is an interracial buddy film about a black caregiver from the suburbs and a quadriplegic white aristocrat. Éric Tolédano and Olivier Nakache’s film broke box office records in France and abroad, becoming the second highest grossing French film of all time in domestic release and the most successful non-English film on the export market. However, the film’s critical reception was mixed; some celebrated the film’s …
Genre and Universalism in the Films of Rachid Bouchareb
Theorizing Transregional Cinemas
Theorizing Transregional Cinemas David Pettersen (bio) Niels Niessen. Miraculous Realism: The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord. Albany: SUNY Press, 2020. 338 pages. $95 hardcover. $33.95 paperback. Niels Niessen's new book Miraculous Realism is a fascinating study of films from the French-speaking part of Belgium (the Wallonia region) and the industrial French north (the city of Lille and the Nord–Pas de Calais region). The book fills an important g…
Netflix’s Lupin
This chapter considers questions of media internationalisation and localisation in the contemporary age of globalised subscription video-on-demand ((S)VoD) platforms through a case study of Netflix’s French series Lupin (2020–). The author examines the production history of the series and the adaptation practices of Netflix’s collaboration with the French studio Gaumont to transform the source novels into a star vehicle for France’s best-known Bl…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works)