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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827930703321

Autore

Archer Neil <1971->

Titolo

The French road movie : space, mobility, identity / / Neil Archer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

1-283-86654-4

0-85745-771-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Classificazione

AP 44935

Disciplina

791.43/655

791.4362

791.43655

Soggetti

Road films - France - History and criticism

Motion pictures - France - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Translations; Introduction: Locating the Road Movie; 1. Road to Autopia: Les Valseuses and Le Plein de super; 2. 'Capturing Freedom': Marginality and the Road Movie; 3. No Place Like Home: Camping it Up in Drôle de Félix; 4. Nowhere Men: Masculinity and the Road Movie; 5. From Flânerie to Glânerie: The Possibilities of a 'Feminine Road Movie'; 6. Travel and the Transnational Road Movie in the Twenty-First Century; 7. 'Welcome to France!' The Road Movie and French National Cinema; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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, analyzing 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 Mo