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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, analyzing 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. The book's overall aim, through these readings, is to justify the place of the road genre within French cinema histories and reinvigorate this often neglected and misunderstood area of study.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: French Road Movie
• Author: Neil Archer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780857457707
• ISBN: 0857457705
• ID: 01291767
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 352 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 142 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2012

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