Open Roads, Closed Borders ：The Contemporary French-language Road Movie ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：The Contemporary French-language Road Movie

Publication series ：1

Author： Gott   Michael;Schilt   Thibaut  

Publisher： Intellect Books‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781783200672

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781841506623

Subject： J905 Movie, tv televisions reviews, enjoy

Keyword： 电影、电视艺术

Language： ENG

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This is the first collection of essays about French-language road movies, a particularly rich yet critically neglected cinematic category. These films, the contributors argue, offer important perspectives on contemporary French ideas about national identity, France’s former colonies, Europe, and the rest of the world. Taken together, the essays illustrate how travel and road motifs have enabled directors of various national origins and backgrounds to reimagine space and move beyond simple oppositions such as Islam and secularism, local and global, home and away, France and Africa, and East and West.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: On the Eve of the Journey: Tangier, Tbilisi, Calais

Chapter 2: The Constant Tourist: Passing Intimacy and Touristic Nomadism in Drôle de Félix

Chapter 3: Brittany, No Exit: Travelling in Circles in Manuel Poirier’s Western

Chapter 4: Troubling Return: Femininity and Algeria in La Fille de Keltoum

Chapter 5: Going Nowhere Fast: On the Road in Contemporary Algeria in Tariq Teguia’s Rome plutôt que vous

Chapter 6: Times on the Road: Identity and Lived Temporality in Benoît Jacquot’s À tout de suite and L’Intouchable

Chapter 7: Tourism and Travelling in Jean-Luc Godard’s Allemagne 90 neuf zéro and Éloge de l’amour

Chapter 8: Under Eastern Eyes: Displacement, Placelessness and the Exilic Optic in Emmanuel Finkiel’s Nulle part terre promise

Chapter 9: Nowhere to Run, Somewhere to Hide: Laurent Cantet’s L’Emploi du temps

Chapter 10: Traffic in Souls: The Perils and Promises of Mobility in La Promesse

Chapter 11: Mobility and Exile in Claire Denis’s 35 rhums

Chapter 12: Gatlif’s Manifesto: Cinema is Travel

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

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