French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe'

French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe'
ISBN-10
1474413978
ISBN-13
9781474413978
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2016-05-31
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Author
Gott Michael Gott

Description

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.

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