The French Road Movie : Space, Mobility, Identity
Neil Archer
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.
Ano:
2012
Edição:
1
Editora:
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
204
ISBN 10:
0857457713
ISBN 13:
9780857457714
Arquivo:
PDF, 852 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2012