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.

Motion pictures--France--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The traditionally American genre of the road movie has been explored and reconfigured in the French context since the later 1960s. Comparative in its approach, this book studies the inter-relationship between American and French culture and cinemas, and in the process considers and challenges histories of the road movie. It combines film history with film theory methodologies, analyzing transformations in social, political and film-industrial contexts alongside changing perspectives on the meaning and possibilities of film. At once chronological and thematic in structure, The French Road Mo

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Translations; Introduction: Locating the Road Movie; 1. Road to Autopia: Les Valseuses and Le Plein de super; 2. 'Capturing Freedom': Marginality and the Road Movie; 3. No Place Like Home: Camping it Up in Drôle de Félix; 4. Nowhere Men: Masculinity and the Road Movie; 5. From Flânerie to Glânerie: The Possibilities of a 'Feminine Road Movie'; 6. Travel and the Transnational Road Movie in the Twenty-First Century; 7. 'Welcome to France!' The Road Movie and French National Cinema; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283866545

1283866544

9780857457714

0857457713

OCLC:

821216752