Dimensions
160 x 231 x 16mm
Although a long-established and influential genre, this is the first comprehensive study of the European road cinema. 'Crossing New Europe' investigates this tradition, its relationship with the American road movie and its aesthetic forms. It examines such crucial issues as individual and national identity crises, and phenomena such as displacement, diaspora, exile, migration, nomadism, and tourism in post-modern, post-Berlin Wall Europe. Drawing on the work of Said, Hall, Shields, Urry, Bauman, Deleuze and Guattari and other critical theorists, 'Crossing New Europe' adopts a broad interpretation of `Europe' and discusses directors who have long been associated with the road movie.
