BackFrench-language Road Cinema
Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'new Europe' (book in English)
by Michael Gott
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Sociology
- immigration, Europe
- Publishing Date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Collection
- Traditions in World Cinema
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 256 pages • 22 €
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm) - ISBN
- 978-1-4744-2601-5
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Book Presentation:
Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, 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.
Book Presentation:
An examination of contemporary French-language road movies within the cultural and political context of ‘New Europe’
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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