The French Road Movie Space, Mobility, Identity [Hardcover]

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 Movieprovides 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.

Acknowledgements
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Introduction:Locating the Road Movie

Chapter 1.Road to Autopia:Les ValseusesandLe Plein de super
Chapter 2.Capturing Freedom: Marginality and the Road Movie
Chapter 3.No Place Like Home: Camping it Up inDr?le de F?lix
Chapter 4.Nowhere Men: Masculinity and the Road Movie
Chapter 5.FromFl?nerietoGl?nerie: The Possibilities of a Feminine Road Movie
Chapter 6.Travel and the Transnational Road Movie in the Twenty-First Century

Afterword:Welcome to France!: The Road Movie and French National Cinema

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