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The French road movie : space, mobility, identity /
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 histor...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2012.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Archer, Neil, | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The French road movie : |b space, mobility, identity / |c Neil Archer. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Berghahn Books, |c 2012. | ||
| 300 | |a xi, 192 p. ; |c 23 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-185). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 Movie provides in each chapter a comprehensive introduction to key themes emerging from the genre in the French context - liberty, identity and citizenship, masculinity, femininity, border-crossing - followed by detailed, innovative and often revisionist readings of the chosen films. The book's overall aim, through these readings, is to justify the place of the road genre within French cinema histories and reinvigorate this often neglected and misunderstood area of study. | ||
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