Driving Visions : : Exploring the Road Movie / / David Laderman.

From the visionary rebellion of Easy Rider to the reinvention of home in The Straight Story, the road movie has emerged as a significant film genre since the late 1960s, able to cut across a wide variety of film styles and contexts. Yet, within the variety, a certain generic core remains constant: t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Chapter 1. PAVING THE WAY Sources and Features of the Road Movie
  • Chapter 2. BLAZING THE TRAIL Visionary Rebellion and the Late-1960s Road Movie
  • Chapter 3 DRIFTING ON EMPTY Existential Irony and the Early-1970s Road Movie
  • Chapter 4 BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES The1980s Postmodern Road Movie
  • Chapter 5 REBUILDING THE ENGINE The1990s Multicultural Road Movie
  • Chapter 6 TRAVELING OTHER HIGHWAYS The European Road Movie
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX