Traveling in French Cinema

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by Sylvie Blum-Reid

Type

Essays

Subject

Countries > France

Keywords

France, French cinema

Publishing date

2015

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 245 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-137-55353-9

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Book Presentation:
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.

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.

Press 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)

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan