French-language Road Cinema (eBook)

Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe'

Michael Gott (Autor)

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2016
208 Seiten
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-9868-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Over 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 Ismael Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurismaki 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.5.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-7486-9868-X / 074869868X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-9868-4 / 9780748698684