Traveling in French Cinema [electronic resource] /
Blum-Reid, Sylvie.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Departure -- Rituals: the unlikely travel -- Vagabondages -- The return/the nostoï -- Transit -- Rebels and flâneuses -- Dérives -- Conclusion.
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.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures—European influences.
Communication.
Arts.
Motion pictures and television.
Film History.
European Cinema and TV.
Media Studies.
Arts.
Screen Studies.