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1 online resource (vi, 247 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
On the eve of the journey : Tangier, Tbilisi, Calais / Laura Rascaroli -- The constant tourist : passing intimacy and touristic nomadism in Drôle de Félix / Florian Grandena -- Brittany, no exit : travelling in circles in Manuel Poirier's Western / Thibaut Schlit -- Troubling return : femininity and Algeria in La Fille de Keltoum / Darren Waldron -- Going nowhere fast : on the road in contemporary Algeria in Tariq Teguia's Rome plutôt que vous / Joseph McGonagle -- Times on the road : identity and lived temporality in Benoît Jacquot's À tout de suite and L'Intouchable / 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 : displacement, placelessness and the exilic optic in Emmanuel Finkiel's Nulle part terre promise / Michael Gott -- Nowhere to run, somewhere to hide : Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps / Martin O'Shaughnessy -- Traffic in souls : the perils and promises of mobility in La Promesse / David Laderman -- Mobility and exile in Claire Denis's 35 rhums / Michelle Royer and Miriam Thompson -- Gatlif's manifesto : cinema is travel / Sylvie Blum-Reid. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Road films -- France -- History and criticism.
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Road films. |
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France. |
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Road films -- Africa -- History and criticism.
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Africa. |
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Road films -- Europe -- History and criticism.
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Europe. |
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Motion pictures, French -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures, French. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Gott, Michael, editor, author.
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Schilt, Thibaut, editor, author.
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Rascaroli, Laura.
On the eve of the journey.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Open roads, closed borders. 9781841506623 1841506621 |
| ISBN |
9781783200672 (electronic book) |
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1783200677 (electronic book) |
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9781841506623 |
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1841506621 |
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