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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792581503321

Autore

Gott Michael

Titolo

French-language road cinema : borders, diasporas, migration and 'New Europe' / / Michael Gott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4744-2601-8

1-4744-2196-2

0-7486-9868-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Traditions in world cinema

Disciplina

791.4362

Soggetti

Road films - French-speaking countries - History

National characteristics, French, in motion pictures

Travel in motion pictures

Motion pictures, French

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Traditions in World Cinema -- Introduction -- 1. Mapping the Hybrid European Road: French Connections, European Traditions and American Influence? -- 2. Remapping the European Road -- 3. Cowboys, Icebergs, Anarchists and Toreadors: The Paradoxes and Possibilities of the Francophone Belgian Road Cinema -- 4. Travelling Beyond the National: Mobile Citizenship and Flexible Identities in French-language Return Road Movies -- 5. The End of the Road? Dark Routes and Urban Passageways -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.