![]() ![]() #The roadmovie movieAt 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. 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. 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. The traditionally American genre of the road movie has been explored and reconfigured in the French context since the later 1960s. Lucy Mazdon, University of Southampton Description.For this it is to be commended and I certainly think a work on this topic is timely and much needed." "There is much of interest in this book and it provides some very interesting and at times innovative readings of an important body of films and of a French inflection of the road movie genre. There is a solid theoretical basis which is clearly explained but never intrusive." The arguments combine cultural width and analytical detail, and are coherent and persuasive. "This is a well conceived and interesting book. Journal of Contemporary European Studies.“Much of the discussion…in this interesting book, has useful things to say at a micro level about the contingency of the image in the digital era and the soundness of an approach that tests the limits, pitfalls and benefits of speaking of ‘Frenchness’ in relation to the audiovisual projection of a space that never quite seems to stand still.” Recommend to your Library Available in GOBI® Reviews If you are a professor requesting an examination copy.If you are a periodical or other publication reviewing our content.ISBN 978-0-85745-770-7 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (November 2012)īuy print book Hb View Cart Your country: - edit Buy the eBook from these vendors Request a Review or Examination Copy (in Digital Format) Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.Ĭlick here to select your preferences The French Road Movie Space, Mobility, Identity Neil Archer ![]()
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