Open roads, closed borders : the contemporary French-language road movie / edited by Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gott, Michael, editor of compilation, author.

Schilt, Thibaut, editor of compilation, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Road films--France--History and criticism.

Road films.

Road films--Africa--History and criticism.

Road films--Europe--History and criticism.

Motion pictures, French--History and criticism.

Motion pictures, French.

Europe.

Africa.

France.

Physical Description:

vi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2013.

Summary:

This is the first collection of essays about French-language road movies, a particularly rich yet critically neglected cinematic category. These films, the contributors argue, offer important perspectives on contemporary French ideas about national identity, France's former colonies, Europe, and the rest of the world. Taken together, the essays illustrate how travel and road motifs have enabled directors of various national origins and backgrounds to reimagine space and move beyond simple oppositions such as Islam and secularism, local and global, home and away, France and Africa, and East and West.

Contents:

On the eve of the journey: Tangier, Tbilisi, Calais / Laura Rascaroli

The constant tourist: passing intimacy and touristic nomadism in Drôle de Félix / Florian Grandena

Brittany, no exit: travelling in circles in Manuel Poirier's Western / Thibaut Schlit

Troubling return: femininity and Algeria in La Fille de Keltoum / Darren Waldron

Going nowhere fast: on the road in contemporary Algeria in Tariq Teguia's Rome plutôt que vous / Joseph McGonagle

Times on the road: identity and lived temporality in Benoît Jacquot's À tout de suite and L'Intouchable / Glen W. Norton

Tourism and travelling in Jean-Luc Godard's Allemagne 90 neuf zéro and Éloge de l'amour / Ewa Mazierska

Under Eastern eyes: displacement, placelessness and the exilic optic in Emmanuel Finkiel's Nulle part terre promise / Michael Gott

Nowhere to run, somewhere to hide: Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps / Martin O'Shaughnessy

Traffic in souls: the perils and promises of mobility in La Promesse / David Laderman

Mobility and exile in Claire Denis's 35 rhums / Michelle Royer and Miriam Thompson

Gatlif's manifesto: cinema is travel / Sylvie Blum-Reid.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Rascaroli, Laura. On the eve of the journey.

ISBN:

9781841506623

1841506621

OCLC:

841806202

Publisher Number:

99954647863