Beyond the déjà-vu
Intermedial tranpositions of the film noir motif of the automobile in contemporary Anglo-American and French novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10248903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurence Riu-Comut (0009-0005-8797-7563, ALTER Research Group (Arts/Langages : Transitions & Relations - UR 7504), Université of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211-227 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Transport History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5266 • E-ISSN: 1759-3999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00225266251327366 |
| OpenAlex | W4408557276 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article focuses on the stakes of the intermedial transpositions of the filmic motif of the automobile from the noir genre in a corpus of four Anglo-American novels which bear the imprint of cinema: Jean Echenoz's Cherokee (1983), Tanguy Viel's L'Absolue Perfection du Crime (2001), Martin Amis's London Fields (1989), Robert Coover's Noir (2010). Automobile and automobility will be considered as “semantic/syntactic” criteria defining the noir genre (Rick Altman). The transposition of this filmic motif and of genre scenes such as the car chase contribute to the “return to narrative” (Dominique Viart) after the relative decline of narrative fiction in the previous decades, under the influence of the Nouveau Roman in France and of formalist experimentations in the United States and the United Kingdom. It contributes to the renewal of the contemporary novel from in a critical light, denouncing traditional novelistic conventions and genre stereotypes
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Déjà vu · Genealogy · Motif (music · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |