Open Roads, Closed Borders

Michael Gott is assistant professor of French at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.Thibaut Schilt is assistant professor of French at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts.

'Open Roads, Closed Borders opens the reader’s eyes to a vast world of ideas by viewing them through the pinhole perspective of the contemporary French-language road movie'

• Introduction – Michael Gott and Thibaut SchiltChapter 1: On the Eve of the Journey: Tangier, Tbilisi, Calais – Laura RascaroliChapter 2: The Constant Tourist: Passing Intimacy and Touristic Nomadism in Drôle de Félix – Florian GrandenaChapter 3: Brittany, No Exit: Travelling in Circles in Manuel Poirier’s Western – Thibaut SchiltChapter 4: Troubling Return: Femininity and Algeria in La Fille de Keltoum – Darren WaldronChapter 5: Going Nowhere Fast: On the Road in Contemporary Algeria in Tariq Teguia’s Rome plutôt que vous – Joseph McGonagleChapter 6: Times on the Road: Identity and Lived Temporality in Benoît Jacquot’s À tout de suite and L’Intouchable – Glen W. NortonChapter 7: Tourism and Travelling in Jean-Luc Godard’s Allemagne 90 neuf zéro and Éloge de l’amour – Ewa MazierskaChapter 8: Under Eastern Eyes: Displacement, Placelessness and the Exilic Optic in Emmanuel Finkiel’s Nulle part terre promise – Michael GottChapter 9: Nowhere to Run, Somewhere to Hide: Laurent Cantet’s L’Emploi du temps – Martin O’ShaughnessyChapter 10: Traffic in Souls: The Perils and Promises of Mobility in La Promesse – David LadermanChapter 11: Mobility and Exile in Claire Denis’s 35 rhums – Michelle Royer and Miriam ThompsonChapter 12: Gatlif’s Manifesto: Cinema is Travel – Sylvie Blum-Reid