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OverviewOver 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael GottPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781474426015ISBN 10: 1474426018 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 31 July 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn accessible and intuitive contribution to a thriving field of film studies that will appeal to those interested in the changing state of Europe, as well as cinema's capacity to weigh in on related debates. -- Ally Lee, Studies in European Cinema French Language Road Cinema is a thoughtful, timely and exciting book. The wealth of European film analyses it offers is notable in its attention to underexplored women's road cinema, Belgian and Swiss productions as well as in its care to delineate opposing meanings of mobility for different European residents. The book reveals a nuanced approach to road film as a form that makes its spectators consider the complexity of identity, mobility and borders in today's Europe, offering an indispensable trans-disciplinary guide for researchers in European film and mobility studies. -- Ipek Celik Rappas, LSE Review of Books French Language Road Cinema is a thoughtful, timely and exciting book. The wealth of European film analyses it offers is notable in its attention to underexplored women's road cinema, Belgian and Swiss productions as well as in its care to delineate opposing meanings of mobility for different European residents. The book reveals a nuanced approach to road film as a form that makes its spectators consider the complexity of identity, mobility and borders in today's Europe, offering an indispensable trans-disciplinary guide for researchers in European film and mobility studies. -- Ipek Celik Rappas, LSE Review of Books French Language Road Cinema is a thoughtful, timely and exciting book. The wealth of European film analyses it offers is notable in its attention to underexplored women's road cinema, Belgian and Swiss productions as well as in its care to delineate opposing meanings of mobility for different European residents. The book reveals a nuanced approach to road film as a form that makes its spectators consider the complexity of identity, mobility and borders in today's Europe, offering an indispensable trans-disciplinary guide for researchers in European film and mobility studies. -- Ipek Celik Rappas, LSE Review of Books 'An accessible and intuitive contribution to a thriving field of film studies that will appeal to those interested in the changing state of Europe, as well as cinema's capacity to weigh in on related debates.'--Ally Lee Studies in European Cinema 'French Language Road Cinema is a thoughtful, timely and exciting book. The wealth of European film analyses it offers is notable in its attention to underexplored women's road cinema, Belgian and Swiss productions as well as in its care to delineate opposing meanings of mobility for different European residents. The book reveals a nuanced approach to road film as a form that makes its spectators consider the complexity of identity, mobility and borders in today's Europe, offering an indispensable trans-disciplinary guide for researchers in European film and mobility studies.' --Ipek Celik Rappas LSE Review of Books Author InformationMichael Gott is Assistant Professor of French and Niehoff Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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