The French Road Movie : : Space, Mobility, Identity / / 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 histor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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