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

By Michael Gott

Book Overview

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 Isma l Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurism ki 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474426018
• ISBN13: 9781474426015
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"