The French Road Movie

Author : Neil Archer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780857457707

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The French Road Movie by Neil Archer Pdf

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, analysing 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. Through these readings the author justifies the place of the road genre within French cinema histories and reinvigorates this often neglected and misunderstood area of study.

Author : Michael Gott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 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.

Author : Neil Archer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,7 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.

Author : Marcelline Block
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 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.

Author : Richard F. Kuisel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400839971

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The French Way by Richard F. Kuisel Pdf

How the French have used American culture to define a unique modern identity There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably pretentious. And we find the U.S. unbearably hegemonic." Are the French fascinated or threatened by America? They Americanize yet are notorious for expressions of anti-Americanism. From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to free markets and foreign policy, this book looks closely at the conflicts and contradictions of France's relationship to American politics and culture. Richard Kuisel shows how the French have used America as both yardstick and foil to measure their own distinct national identity. They ask: how can we be modern like the Americans without becoming like them? France has charted its own path: it has welcomed America's products but rejected American policies; assailed America's "jungle capitalism" while liberalizing its own economy; attacked "Reaganomics'" while defending French social security; and protected French cinema, television, food, and language even while ingesting American pop culture. Kuisel examines France's role as an independent ally of the United States—in the reunification of Germany and in military involvement in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia—but he also considers the country's failures in influencing the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. Whether investigating France's successful information technology sector or its spurning of American expertise during the AIDS epidemic, Kuisel asks if this insistence on a French way represents a growing distance between Europe and the United States or a reaction to American globalization. Exploring cultural trends, values, public opinion, and political reality, The French Way delves into the complex relationship between two modern nations.

Author : Lucy Mazdon,Catherine Wheatley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857453792

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French Film in Britain by Lucy Mazdon,Catherine Wheatley Pdf

In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language works. French cinema, however, appears to undergo a transformation as it reaches Britain, becoming something quite different to that experienced by audiences at home. Drawing on extensive archival research the authors examine in detail the discourses, debates and decisions which have determined the place accorded to French cinema in British film culture. In so doing they provide a fascinating account of this particular instance of transnational cinematic traffic while simultaneously shedding new light on British film history. From the early days of the Film Society, via the advent of the X certificate to the new possibilities of video and DVD, this book reveals the complex and detailed history of the distribution, exhibition, marketing and reception of French cinema in Britain.

Author : Jean-Pierre Boulé,Ursula Tidd
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857457301

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Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema by Jean-Pierre Boulé,Ursula Tidd Pdf

Simone de Beauvoir's work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered 'othering' gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir's writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir's key works such as The Second Sex (1949), The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and Old Age (1970).

Author : Kornelia Boczkowska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004537989

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Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video by Kornelia Boczkowska Pdf

What is the relationship between the road movie, American experimental filmmaking and the body?

Author : Michael Gott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Documentary films
ISBN : OCLC:1289517790

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Open Roads, Closed Borders by Michael Gott Pdf

Author : Jean-Dominique Bauby
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307454836

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Pdf

A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that reveals an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousness. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him. Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This book is a lasting testament to his life.

Author : Devin Orgeron
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015074058358

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Road Movies by Devin Orgeron Pdf

Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive. It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a book about images of human mobility more generally and the social function those images have served. From Eadweard Muybridge’s pre-cinematic experiments through contemporary films by David Lynch and Abbas Kiarostami, road movies are part of a larger imagistic tradition focused on the social costs of modernity and the consequences of a culture moving, often quite rapidly, away from the stabilizing structures of community and communication.

Author : Benjamin Halligan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800734876

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Hotbeds of Licentiousness by Benjamin Halligan Pdf

Hotbeds of Licentiousness is the first substantial critical engagement with British pornography on film across the 1970s, including the “Summer of Love,” the rise and fall of the Permissive Society, the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, and beyond. By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, author Benjamin Halligan discusses pornography in terms of lifestyle aspirations and opportunities which point to radical changes in British society. In this way, pornography is approached as a crucial optic with which to consider recent cultural and social history.

Author : John Weightman
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005344630

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Masterworks of the French Cinema by John Weightman Pdf

"The four films, as John Weightman points out in his introduction, fall into two pairs: those by Clair and Ophuls are comedies about sexual relations and social conventions among the European bourgeoisie of the 19th century; those by Renoir and Clouzot are concerned with virile friendship or enmity in extreme situations -- during war-time or in a remote town in South America, where long-distance lorry-driving achieves heroic status."--Book jacket.

Author : Sylvie Blum-Reid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137553546

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Traveling in French Cinema by Sylvie Blum-Reid Pdf

Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films such as departures and returns, the chase, the escape, nomadic wandering, interior voyages, the unlikely travel, rituals, pilgrimages, migrants' narratives and emergencies, women's travel, and healing narratives.

Author : Phil Powrie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Masculinity
ISBN : 0198711190

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French Cinema in the 1980s by Phil Powrie Pdf

French film in the 1980s might have lacked the invention of the New Wave but gritty police thrillers and nostalgic costume-dramas such as Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources brought French cinema to a wider audience than ever before. This landmark study is not merely a history of French film in the 1980s, but offers a set of critical essays on the crisis of masculinity in contemporary French culture, and its interrelationship with nostalgia. After a brief overview both of the crisis in the French film industry during the 1980s, and of the socio-political crisis of masculinity in the wake of 1970s feminism, the book is divided into three sections: the retro-nostalgic film, the Polar, or police thriller, and the comic film. Films studied in detail include Diva, Subway, Coup de foudre, Vivement dimanche , La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille, and Tenue de soir e, while the volume covers actors from G rard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, and Yves Montand to Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, and Emmanuelle B art.