French-language Road Cinema

Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe'

AvMichael Gott

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, including works by Ismaël Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurismäki and Jacqueline Audry amongst many others, 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. Drawing on mobility studies, cultural geography and film theory, this innovative work sketches out the flexible yet distinctive parameters of contemporary French-language road cinema, and argues for an understanding of the ‘road movie’ not as a genre but as a thematic and formal template that crosses cinematic categories to bring together a wide array of films that narrate the movements of migrants, tourists and business executives.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Traditions in World Cinema
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748698677

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Michael Gott is Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in European Studies, Film and Media Studies, and French-language culture and cinema. He is the author of French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas and ‘New Europe’ (EUP, 2016) and co-edited Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French (EUP, 2018), Open Roads, Closed Borders: the Contemporary French-Language Road Movie (Intellect, 2013) and East, West and Centre: Reframing European Cinema Since 1989 (EUP, 2014).

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Mapping French-language European road cinema through France, Switzerland and Belgium, its trajectories extending yet further afield in Europe and beyond, Gott’s book is at once a perceptive exploration of a broad but coherent filmic corpus, an astute reexamination of the road movie, and a novel contribution to transnational European film studies.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Chapter 1 – ‘Mapping the Hybrid European Road: French Connections, European Traditions and American Influence?’; Chapter 2: Remapping the European Road; Chapter 3: Cowboys, Icebergs, Anarchists and Toreadors: The Paradoxes and Possibilities of the Francophone Belgian Road Cinema; Chapter 4: Travelling Beyond the National: Mobile Citizenship, Flexible Identities in French-language Return Road Movies; Chapter 5 –‘The End of the Road?: Dark Routes and Urban Passageways’