Open roads, closed borders [[electronic resource] ] : the contemporary French-language road movie / / by Michael Gott
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| Autore: |
Gott Michael
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| Titolo: |
Open roads, closed borders [[electronic resource] ] : the contemporary French-language road movie / / by Michael Gott
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| Pubblicazione: | Bristol, : Intellect, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43655 |
| Soggetto topico: | Documentary films - Great Britain - History |
| Motion pictures - Great Britain - History | |
| Social realism - Great Britain | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
SchiltThibaut
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: On the Eve of the Journey: Tangier, Tbilisi, Calais; Chapter 2: The Constant Tourist: Passing Intimacy and Touristic Nomadism in Drôle de Félix; Chapter 3: Brittany, No Exit: Travelling in Circles in Manuel Poirier's Western; Chapter 4: Troubling Return: Femininity and Algeria in La Fille de Keltoum; Chapter 5: Going Nowhere Fast: On the Road in Contemporary Algeria in Tariq Teguia's Rome plutôt que vous; Chapter 6: Times on the Road: Identity and Lived Temporality in Benoît Jacquot's À tout de suite and L'Intouchable |
| Chapter 7: Tourism and Travelling in Jean-Luc Godard's Allemagne 90 neuf zéro and Éloge de l'amourChapter 8: Under Eastern Eyes: Displacement, Placelessness and the Exilic Optic in Emmanuel Finkiel's Nulle part terre promise; Chapter 9: Nowhere to Run, Somewhere to Hide: Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps; Chapter 10: Traffic in Souls: The Perils and Promises of Mobility in La Promesse; Chapter 11: Mobility and Exile in Claire Denis's 35 rhums; Chapter 12: Gatlif's Manifesto: Cinema is Travel; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Index; Back Cover | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This is the first collection of essays about French-language road movies, a particularly rich yet critically neglected cinematic category. These films, the contributors argue, offer important perspectives on contemporary French ideas about national identity, France's former colonies, Europe, and the rest of the world. Taken together, the essays illustrate how travel and road motifs have enabled directors of various national origins and backgrounds to reimagine space and move beyond simple oppositions such as Islam and secularism, local and global, home and away, France and Africa, and East and |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Open roads, closed borders |
| ISBN: | 1-78320-067-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462901203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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