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

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

Hardcover

Series: Traditions in World Cinema

Film StudiesFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 0748698671
ISBN13: 9780748698677
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Jun 21 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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 Ismaël Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurismäki 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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