[ecrea] New Book Announcement: 'French-language Road Cinema' by Michael Gott

*/NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT/*

*French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New 
Europe'*

*By Michael Gott *

Hardback / June 2016 / 208 pages / ISBN 9780748698677 / £70.00

Part of the Traditions in World Cinema series / Published by Edinburgh 
University Press

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*About the book*

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.

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*https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-language-road-cinema.html*

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*Reviews*

‘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

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Michael Gott, PhD
Director of Graduate Studies & Assistant Professor of French
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Director of Programming / Center for Film and Media Studies
University of Cincinnati
E-mail: (michael.gott /at/ uc.edu)
Office: 709B Old Chemistry

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