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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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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Archer, Neil
Formatua: Printed Book
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
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Aurkibidea:
  • 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.