Open Roads, Closed Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Open Roads, Closed Borders write by Michael Gott. This book was released on 2013. Open Roads, Closed Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Open Roads, Closed Borders 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.
ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry
ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry write by Marcelline Block. This book was released on 2020-09-21. ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, a range of international scholars offers a comprehensive study of this significant and influential figure, covering his French and English-language films and videos, and framing Gondry as a transnational auteur whose work provides insight into both French/European and American cinematic and cultural identity.
Screen borders
Screen borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Screen borders write by Michael Gott. This book was released on 2023-05-23. Screen borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Film and television offer important insights into social outlooks on borders in France and Europe more generally. This book undertakes a visual cultural history of contemporary borders through a film and television tour. It traces on-screen borders from the Gare du Nord train station in Paris to Calais, London, Lampedusa and Lapland. It contends that different types of mobilities and immobilities (refugees, urban commuters, workers in a post-industrial landscape) and vantage points (from borderland forests, ports, train stations, airports, refugee centers) are all part of a complex French and European border narrative. It covers a wide range of examples, from popular films and TV series to auteur fiction and documentaries by well-known directors from across Europe and beyond.
ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb
ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb write by Michael Gott. This book was released on 2020-09-21. ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.
French-language Road Cinema
French-language Road Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook French-language Road Cinema write by Gott Michael Gott. This book was released on 2016-05-31. French-language Road Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Ismael Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurismaki 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.
