Mass Producing European Cinema

Equal parts historical study, industrial analysis and critical survey of some of the most important films and television programs in recent European history, this book gives readers an overview of the development and output of this important company while also giving them a ringside seat for the latest round of the oldest battle in the film business. With films like Lucy, The Impossible and Paddington, European studios are producing hits that are unprecedented in terms of global success. Christopher Meir delves into Studiocanal, the foremost European company in the contemporary film and television industries, and chronicles its rise from a small production subsidiary of Canal Plus to being the most important global challenger to Hollywood's dominance.

Christopher Meir is Lecturer in Film at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago. He edited a special issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television on film marketing and has published on Jeremy Thomas. He is currently completing Scottish Cinema: Texts and Contexts.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Studio Building in Contemporary European Cinema Chapter 1: The Bones that Litter the Shore: A Brief History of Integrated, Pan-European Studios Chapter 2: Le Studio Canal+ as "Dumb Money:" Working within Hollywood and Building a Library: 1990-1999 Chapter 3: Surviving Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal: 1999-2006 Chapter 4: Once More into the Breach: International Expansion 2006-Present Chapter 5: The European Studio as Creative Force: Defining and Analyzing Studiocanal's Output, 2006-Present Chapter 6: Studiocanal's Mining of the Middlebrow Chapter 7: Studiocanal and Popular Genre Cinema and Television Appendix 1: International Films and TV Dramas Made by StudioCanal, 2009-2017 Appendix 2: Film and Television Drama Projects Developed by StudioCanal, 2006-PRESENT Bibliography Index