| French-Language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe' Contributor(s): Gott, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0748698671 ISBN-13: 9780748698677 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Reference |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2016299685 |
| Series: Traditions in World Cinema |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.00 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |