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