The French Road Movie

Space, Mobility, Identity
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-770-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Archer, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on translations

Introduction: Locating the Road Movie

Chapter 1. Road to Autopia: Les Valseuses and Le Plein de super

Chapter 2. ‘Capturing Freedom’: Marginality and the Road Movie

Chapter 3. No Place Like Home: Camping it Up in Drôle de Félix

Chapter 4. Nowhere Men: Masculinity and the Road Movie

Chapter 5. From Flânerie to Glânerie: The Possibilities of a ‘Feminine Road Movie’

Chapter 6. Travel and the Transnational Road Movie in the Twenty-First Century

Afterword: ‘Welcome to France!’: The Road Movie and French National Cinema

Filmography

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Archer, Neil
Neil Archer teaches Film Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. He is the author of a study guide to The Bourne Ultimatum (Auteur, 2012) and is currently undertaking long-term research into the relationship between European and American cinemas, with a particular interest in the recent films of Woody Allen.

Neil Archer teaches Film Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. He is the author of a study guide to The Bourne Ultimatum (Auteur, 2012) and is currently undertaking long-term research into the relationship between European and American cinemas, with a particular interest in the recent films of Woody Allen.