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Traditions in World Cinema Series eds. Linda Badley and R. Barton palmer This new series introduces diverse and fascinating movements in world cinema. Each volume concentrates on a set of films from a different national, regional or, in some cases, cross-cultural cinema which constitute a particular tradition. 'Mapping French-language European road cinema through France, Switzerland and Belgium, its trajectories extending yet further afield in Europe and beyond, Gott's book is at once a perceptive exploration of a broad but coherent filmic corpus, an astute re-examination of the road movie, and a novel contribution to transnational European film studies.' Laura Rascaroli, Professor of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork 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 Ismaël Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurismäki 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. Michael Gott is Assistant Professor of French and Niehoff Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Cover image: Aaltra, 2004, Benoit Delepine (c) La Parti Productions/Moviestream/The Kobal Collection Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com PPC ISBN: 978-0-7486-9867-7 Barcode
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Michael Gott is Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in European Studies, Film and Media Studies, and French-language culture and cinema. He is the author of
French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas and 'New Europe' (EUP, 2016) and co-edited
Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French (EUP, 2018),
Open Roads, Closed Borders: the Contemporary French-Language Road Movie (Intellect, 2013) and
East, West and Centre: Reframing European Cinema Since 1989 (EUP, 2014).
Summary
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.
