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The French Road Movie : Space, Mobility, Identity / Neil Archer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780857457707
  • 9780857457714
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 655 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.R63 A73 2012
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translations -- Introduction Locating the Road Movie -- One. Road to Autopia: Les Valseuses and Le Plein de super -- Two ‘Capturing Freedom’: Marginality and the Road Movie -- Three No Place Like Home: Camping it Up in Drôle de Félix -- Four Nowhere Men: Masculinity and the Road Movie -- Five From Flânerie to Glânerie: The Possibilities of a ‘Feminine Road Movie’ -- Six Travel and the Transnational Road Movie in the Twenty-First Century -- Afterword ‘Welcome to France!’ The Road Movie and French National Cinema -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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, analysing 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. Through these readings the author justifies the place of the road genre within French cinema histories and reinvigorates this often neglected and misunderstood area of study.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translations -- Introduction Locating the Road Movie -- One. Road to Autopia: Les Valseuses and Le Plein de super -- Two ‘Capturing Freedom’: Marginality and the Road Movie -- Three No Place Like Home: Camping it Up in Drôle de Félix -- Four Nowhere Men: Masculinity and the Road Movie -- Five From Flânerie to Glânerie: The Possibilities of a ‘Feminine Road Movie’ -- Six Travel and the Transnational Road Movie in the Twenty-First Century -- Afterword ‘Welcome to France!’ The Road Movie and French National Cinema -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

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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, analysing 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. Through these readings the author justifies the place of the road genre within French cinema histories and reinvigorates this often neglected and misunderstood area of study.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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