Traveling in French Cinema

by Sylvie Blum-Reid

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137553539
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Sylvie Blum-Reid teaches French and European Cinema at the University of Florida, USA. She is the author of East-West Encounters: Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature (Wallflower 2003). Her articles have been published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Iris, and the Contemporary Journal of French and Francophone Studies.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Departure
2. Rituals: The Unlikely Travel
3. Vagabondages
4. The Return/The Nostoï
5. Transit
6. Rebels and Flâneuses
7. Dérives
Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Blum-Reid provides a succinct bibliography supplemented by an impressive filmography that lists seventy-eight directors. Her welcome resource spans cultural studies, ethnography, film studies, gender studies, philosophy, semiotics, tourism studies, and travel writing.” (Anne Cirella-Urrutia, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature STTCL, Vol. 42 (2), June, 2018)

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