The French Road Movie : : Space, Mobility, Identity / / Neil Archer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Archer, Neil,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Note on Translations --; Introduction Locating the Road Movie --; One. Road to Autopia: Les Valseuses and Le Plein de super --; Two ‘Capturing Freedom’: Marginality and the Road Movie --; Three No Place Like Home: Camping it Up in Drôle de Félix --; Four Nowhere Men: Masculinity and the Road Movie --; Five From Flânerie to Glânerie: The Possibilities of a ‘Feminine Road Movie’ --; Six Travel and the Transnational Road Movie in the Twenty-First Century --; Afterword ‘Welcome to France!’ The Road Movie and French National Cinema --; Filmography --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857457714; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857457714
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Neil Archer.

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.