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Abstract
This edited volume looks at the cinematic travel motif from different perspectives and nations, focusing on movements and flows and how these narratives (re)imagine the contemporary global world. Primarily an American genre, the road movie has been rapidly adopted by other nations. The most recent publications focus their attention on very particular road stories; however, as road movies offer renovated perspectives on the ever-shifting sense of place and space of the global world. By gathering as many diverse contributions as possible, the book explores the importance of movement and mobility in different (inter)national contexts. Featuring such diverse travel perspectives as those considered in Guantanamera (1996), Five Golden Flowers (1959), Wrong Side of the Road (1981), Badlands (1973), Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Africa United (2011).
José Duarte teaches North American cinema and history of cinema at the School of Arts and Humanities, Universidade de Lisboa.
Timothy Corrigan is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgements | vii | ||
| Introduction: From American Roads to Global Highways | 1 | ||
| Section 1: The Americas | 13 | ||
| Chapter 1: Learning to Drive: Midcentury Guidance Films and the Middle-of-the-Road Politics of the American Road Movie | 15 | ||
| Chapter 2: The Colombian Road Movie: Uses and Abuses of a Film Genre | 35 | ||
| Chapter 3: Notes on a Journey from Guantánamo to Havana: Guantanamera Revisited as Winds of Change Hit US-Cuba Relations | 53 | ||
| Section 2: Africa | 67 | ||
| Chapter 4: Departing from Anti-Colonialism, Arriving at Afropolitanism: Africa United as an African Road Movie | 69 | ||
| Chapter 5: The Road and Transatlantic Currents in the Cinema of Licínio Azevedo | 87 | ||
| Section 3: Asia and Australia | 101 | ||
| Chapter 6: The Palestinian Road(block) Movie: Interrupted Journeys in Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention | 103 | ||
| Chapter 7: Song of the Big Road: Negotiating Scale in the Road Films of Twenty-First-Century India | 119 | ||
| Chapter 8: Provincializing the Road Movie: Realism, Epic and Mobility in Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik | 133 | ||
| Chapter 9: Navigating Gender, Ethnicity and Space: Five Golden Flowers as a Socialist Road Movie | 149 | ||
| Chapter 10: Genre at a Crossroads: The Korean Road Movie | 173 | ||
| Chapter 11: Wrong Side of the Road: Crossing Cultures, Traversing Forms and the Blackfella Road Movie | 187 | ||
| Section 4: Europe | 201 | ||
| Chapter 12: Et in Arcadia Ego: Precarious Romanticism and the English Road Movie | 203 | ||
| Chapter 13: Bumps on the ‘Road to Europe’: Remaking the Road Movie and Re-mapping the Nation in Post-2004 Central Europe | 219 | ||
| Chapter 14: The Road Movie in Portuguese Cinema | 237 | ||
| Notes on Editors | 253 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 255 | ||
| Index | 259 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |