Michael Gott

French-Language Road Cinema

Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe'

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781474426015
• ISBN-10: 1474426018
• Artikelnr.: 47879571

Autorenporträt

Michael Gott is Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in European Studies, Film and Media Studies, and French-language culture and cinema. He is the author of French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas and 'New Europe' (EUP, 2016) and co-edited Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French (EUP, 2018), Open Roads, Closed Borders: the Contemporary French-Language Road Movie (Intellect, 2013) and East, West and Centre: Reframing European Cinema Since 1989 (EUP, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1 - 'Mapping the Hybrid European Road: French
Connections, European Traditions and American Influence?'; Chapter 2:
Remapping the European Road; Chapter 3: Cowboys, Icebergs, Anarchists and
Toreadors: The Paradoxes and Possibilities of the Francophone Belgian Road
Cinema; Chapter 4: Travelling Beyond the National: Mobile Citizenship,
Flexible Identities in French-language Return Road Movies; Chapter 5 -'The
End of the Road?: Dark Routes and Urban Passageways'