The French road movie : space, mobility, identity / Neil Archer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archer, Neil, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Road films--France--History and criticism.

Road films.

France.

Physical Description:

xi, 192 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Summary:

While the genre of the road movie is typically thought of as a product of American filmmaking, if one moves beyond generic specificity and considers road movies to be those that explore space and mobility within that space and the meanings produced through this movement, one can identify a strain of French cinema that can be understood as belonging to the genre. Archer (film studies, Anglia Ruskin U., England) conducts readings of the French road movie over the past four decades, addressing such thematic concerns as individual identity, spatial signification and practice, the road as a site where men both carry out their social function and evade responsibility, the evocation of the female protagonist, and transnationalism; relating these themes to socio-political, cultural, and cinematic change in France. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction: locating the road movie

Road to autopia: Les Valseuses and Le Plein de super

'Capturing freedom': marginality and the road movie

No place like home: camping it up in Drôle de Félix

Nowhere men: masculinity and the road movie

From Flânerie to Glânerie: the possibilities of a 'feminine road movie'

Travel and the transnational road movie in the twenty-first century

Afterword: 'welcome to France!': the road movie and french national cinema.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9780857457707

0857457705

9780857457714

0857457713

OCLC:

793224759