The French Road Movie
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The French Road Movie

Space, Mobility, Identity

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The French Road Movie

Space, Mobility, Identity

About this book

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, analysing 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 Movie provides in each chapter a comprehensive introduction to key themes emerging from the genre in the French context – liberty, identity and citizenship, masculinity, femininity, border-crossing – followed by detailed, innovative and often revisionist readings of the chosen films. Through these readings the author justifies the place of the road genre within French cinema histories and reinvigorates this often neglected and misunderstood area of study.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Note on Translations
  6. Introduction: Locating the Road Movie
  7. 1. Road to Autopia: Les Valseuses and Le Plein de super
  8. 2. ‘Capturing Freedom’: Marginality and the Road Movie
  9. 3. No Place Like Home: Camping it Up in DrĂ´le de FĂŠlix
  10. 4. Nowhere Men: Masculinity and the Road Movie
  11. 5. From Flânerie to Glânerie: The Possibilities of a ‘Feminine Road Movie’
  12. 6. Travel and the Transnational Road Movie in the Twenty-First Century
  13. 7. ‘Welcome to France!’ The Road Movie and French National Cinema
  14. Filmography
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index