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Open roads, closed borders : the contemporary French-language road movie /
"This 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, Euro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Intellect,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This 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"--Back cover. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781783200672 1783200677 9781783200689 1783200685 |