Open Roads, Closed Borders

Zusammenfassung A collection of essays about French-language road movies, a particularly rich yet critically neglected cinematic category. It features contributors who argue that these films offer important perspectives on contemporary French ideas about national identity, France's former colonies, Europe, and the rest of the world.

Auteur

Michael Gott is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Cincinnati. Thibaut Schilt, PhD, is Assistant Professor of French at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts. He has published articles on the French-language road movies Drole de Felix (in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies) and Le grand voyage (in The French Review) and a monograph on Francois Ozon for the University of Illinois Press.