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Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, including works by Ismaël Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurismäki and Jacqueline Audry amongst many others, French-language Road Cinema contends that nowhere is the impulse to remap the spaces and identities of 'New Europe' more evident than in French-language cinema. Drawing on mobility studies, cultural geography and film theory, this innovative work sketches out the flexible yet distinctive parameters of contemporary French-language road cinema, and argues for an understanding of the 'road movie' not as a genre but as a thematic and formal template that crosses cinematic categories to bring together a wide array of films that narrate the movements of migrants, tourists and business executives.
Contents
Introduction; Chapter 1 - 'Mapping the Hybrid European Road: French Connections, European Traditions and American Influence?'; Chapter 2: Remapping the European Road; Chapter 3: Cowboys, Icebergs, Anarchists and Toreadors: The Paradoxes and Possibilities of the Francophone Belgian Road Cinema; Chapter 4: Travelling Beyond the National: Mobile Citizenship, Flexible Identities in French-language Return Road Movies; Chapter 5 -'The End of the Road?: Dark Routes and Urban Passageways'
