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Open Roads, Closed Borders

Author : Michael Gott,Thibaut Schilt
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Documentary films
ISBN : 1841506621

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Open Roads, Closed Borders by Michael Gott,Thibaut Schilt Pdf

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

Author : Marcelline Block
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474456036

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ReFocus: The Films of Michel Gondry by Marcelline Block Pdf

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.

French-language Road Cinema

Author : Michael Gott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748698684

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French-language Road Cinema by Michael Gott Pdf

Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, 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.

Slow Cinema

Author : Tiago de Luca
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748696031

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Slow Cinema by Tiago de Luca Pdf

Focused on a body of films bound together through a cinematic aesthetic of slowness, this book is a pioneering effort to situate, theorise and map out slow cinema within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history.

The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity

Author : Nadia Lie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319451381

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The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity by Nadia Lie Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mamá también are only the best-known examples. It offers the first systematic survey of the genre and explains why the road movie is key to contemporary Latin American cinema and society. Proposing the new category of “counter-road movie,” and paying special attention to the genre’s intricate relationship to modernity, Nadia Lie charts the variety of the road movie through films by both renowned and emerging filmmakers. The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity engages with ongoing debates on transnationalism and takes the reader along a wide range of topics, from exile to undocumented migration, from tourism to internally displaced people.

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb

Author : Michael Gott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781474466530

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ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb by Michael Gott Pdf

Examines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.

Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century

Author : Michael Gott,Thibaut Schilt
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781835533048

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Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century by Michael Gott,Thibaut Schilt Pdf

This collection of ten chapters and three original interviews with Québécois filmmakers focuses on the past two decades of Quebec cinema and takes an in-depth look at a (primarily) Montreal-based filmmaking industry whose increasingly diverse productions continue to resist the hegemony of Hollywood and to exist as a visible and successful hub of French-language – and ever more multilingual – cinema in North America. This volume picks up where Bill Marshall’s 2001 Quebec National Cinema ends to investigate the inherently global nature of Quebec’s film industry and cinematic output since the beginning of the new millennium. Through their analyses of contemporary films (Une colonie, Avant les rues, Bon cop, bad cop, Les Affamés, Tom à la ferme, Uvanga, among others), directors (including Xavier Dolan, Denis Côté, Sophie Desrape, Chloé Robichaud, Jean-Marc Vallée, and Monia Chokri) and genres (such as the buddy comedy and the zombie film), our authors examine the growing tension between Quebec cinema as a “national cinema” and as an art form that reflects the transnationalism of today’s world, a new form of fluidity of individual experiences, and an increasing on-screen presence of Indigenous subjects, both within and outside the borders of the province. The book concludes with specially conducted interviews with filmmakers Denis Chouinard, Bachir Bensadekk, and Marie-Hélène Cousineau, who provide their views and insights on contemporary Quebec filmmaking.

Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art

Author : Nilgun Bayraktar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317510734

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Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art by Nilgun Bayraktar Pdf

Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art explores cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe from the 1990s to today. Drawing on theories of migrant and diasporic cinema, moving-image art, and mobility studies, Bayraktar provides historically situated close readings of films, videos, and cinematic installations that concern migratory networks and infrastructures across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Probing the notion of Europe as a coherent entity and a borderless space, this interdisciplinary study investigates the ways in which European ideals of mobility and fluidity are deeply enmeshed with forced migration, illegalization, and xenophobia. With a specific focus on distinct forms of mobility such as labor migration, postcolonial migration, tourism, and refugee mobilities, Bayraktar studies the new counter-hegemonic imaginations invoked by the work of filmmakers such as Ayşe Polat, Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke, and Tony Gatlif as well as video essays and installations of artists such as Kutluğ Ataman, Ursula Biemann, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo. Challenging aesthetic as well as national, cultural, and political boundaries, the works central to this book envision Europe as a diverse, inclusive, and unfixed continent that is reimagined from many elsewheres well beyond its borders.

Sensuous Cinema

Author : Kaya Davies Hayon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501335990

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Sensuous Cinema by Kaya Davies Hayon Pdf

Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film examines a cluster of recent films that feature Maghrebi(-French) people and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, France and, to a lesser degree, Switzerland, and often adopt a sensual aesthetic that prioritizes embodied knowledge, the interrelation of the senses and the material realities of emotional experience. However, despite the importance of the body in these films, no study to date has taken corporeality as its primary point of concern. This new addition to the Thinking Cinema series interweaves corporeal phenomenology with theological and feminist scholarship on the body from the Maghreb and the Middle East to examine how Maghrebi(-French) people of different genders, ethnicities, sexualities, ages and classes have been represented corporeally in contemporary Maghrebi and French cinemas. Via detailed textual and phenomenological analyses of films such as Red Satin (Amari 2002), Exiles (Gatlif 2004), Couscous (Kechiche 2007) and Salvation Army (Taïa 2014), Kaya Hayon Davies conveys the pivotal role that corporeality plays in articulating identity and the emotions in these films.

European Cinema after the Wall

Author : Leen Engelen Leen Engelen,Kris Van Heuckelom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442229600

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European Cinema after the Wall by Leen Engelen Leen Engelen,Kris Van Heuckelom Pdf

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, transnational European cinema has risen, not only in terms of production but also in terms of a growing focus on multiethnic themes within the European context. This shift from national to trans-European filmmaking has been profoundly influenced by such historical developments as the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the subsequent ongoing enlargement of the European Union. In European Cinema after the Wall: Screening East–West Mobility, Leen Engelen and Kris Van Heuckelom have brought together essays that critically examine representations of post-1989 migration from the former Eastern Bloc to Western Europe, uncovering an array of common tropes and narrative devices that characterize the influences and portrayals of immigration. Featuring essays by contributors from backgrounds as divergent as film studies, Slavic and Russian studies, comparative literature, sociology, contemporary history, and communication and media studies, this volume will appeal to scholars of film, European history, and those interested in the impact of migration, diaspora, and the global flow of cinematic culture.

Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations

Author : Denis M. Provencher,Siham Bouamer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793644879

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Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations by Denis M. Provencher,Siham Bouamer Pdf

In this first edited collection in English on Abdellah Taïa, Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer frame the distinctiveness of the Moroccan author’s migration by considering current scholarship in French and Francophone studies, post-colonial studies, affect theory, queer theory, and language and sexuality. In contrast to critics that consider Taïa to immigrate and integrate successfully to France as a writer and intellectual, Provencher and Bouamer argue that the author’s writing is replete with elements of constant migration, “comings and goings,” cruel optimism, flexible accumulation of language over borders, transnational filiations, and new forms of belonging and memory making across time and space. At the same time, his constantly evolving identity emerges in many non-places, defined as liminal and border narrative spaces where unexpected and transgressive new forms of belonging emerge without completely shedding shame, mourning, or melancholy.

The Road Movie

Author : Neil Archer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850889

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The Road Movie by Neil Archer Pdf

Though often seen as one of America's native cinematic genres, the road movie has lent itself to diverse international contexts and inspired a host of filmmakers. As analyzed in this study, from its most familiar origins in Hollywood the road movie has become a global film practice, whether as a vehicle for exploring the relationship between various national contexts and American cinema, as a means of narrating different national and continental histories, or as a form of individual filmmaking expression. Beginning with key films from Depression-era Hollywood and the New Hollywood of the late 1960s and then considering its wider effect on world cinemas, this volume maps the development and adaptability of an enduring genre, studying iconic films along the way.

The Latin American Road Movie

Author : Verónica Garibotto,Jorge Pérez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137580931

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The Latin American Road Movie by Verónica Garibotto,Jorge Pérez Pdf

This volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the geographical, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscape of Latin America.

East, West and Centre

Author : Michael Gott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748694167

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East, West and Centre by Michael Gott Pdf

Re-examines notions of East and West in contemporary European cinema. This book presents a comprehensive investigation of Central European cinema in the early 21st century.