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Open roads, closed borders : the contemporary French-language road movie / edited by Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt.

Title
Open roads, closed borders : the contemporary French-language road movie / edited by Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt.
Publication
Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Gott, Michael
  • Schilt, Thibaut
  • Rascaroli, Laura.
Description
vi, 247 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"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 West"--Back cover.
Subject
  • Road films > France
  • Road films > Africa
  • Road films > Europe
  • Motion pictures, French
  • Road films > France > History and criticism
  • Road films > Africa > History and criticism
  • Road films > Europe > History and criticism
  • Motion pictures, French > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
On the eve of the journey / Laura Rascaroli -- The constant tourist / Florian Grandena -- Brittany, no exit / Thibaut Schlit -- Troubling return / Darren Waldron -- Going nowhere fast / Joseph McGonagle -- Times on the road / Glen W. Norton -- Tourism and travelling in Jean-Luc Godard's Allemagne 90 neuf zéro and Éloge de l'amour / Ewa Mazierska -- Under Eastern eyes / Michael Gott -- Nowhere to run, somewhere to hide / Martin O'Shaughnessy -- Traffic in souls / David Laderman -- Mobility and exile in Claire Denis's 35 rhums / Michelle Royer and Miriam Thompson -- Gatlif's manifesto / Sylvie Blum-Reid.
ISBN
  • 9781841506623
  • 1841506621
OCLC
  • 841806202
  • SCSB-12741205
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library