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

• Autore: Archer Neil <1971->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/655; 791.4362; 791.43655
• Soggetto topico: Road films - France - History and criticism; Motion pictures - France - History and criticism
• Classificazione: AP 44935
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The French road movie
• ISBN: 1-283-86654-4; 0-85745-771-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827930703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II