French-language road cinema : borders, diasporas, migration and 'New Europe' / Michael Gott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gott, Michael, author.

Series:

Traditions in world cinema.

Traditions in world cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Road films--French-speaking countries--History.

Road films.

Motion pictures, French--History.

Motion pictures, French.

Motion pictures--French-speaking countries--History.

Motion pictures.

National characteristics, French, in motion pictures.

Travel in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, French-language Road Cinema contends that nowhere is the impulse to remap the spaces and identities of 'New Europe' more evident than in French-language cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Traditions in World Cinema

Introduction

1. Mapping the Hybrid European Road: French Connections, European Traditions and American Influence?

2. Remapping the European Road

3. Cowboys, Icebergs, Anarchists and Toreadors: The Paradoxes and Possibilities of the Francophone Belgian Road Cinema

4. Travelling Beyond the National: Mobile Citizenship and Flexible Identities in French-language Return Road Movies

5. The End of the Road? Dark Routes and Urban Passageways

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-189) and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).

ISBN:

1-4744-2601-8

1-4744-2196-2

0-7486-9868-X