100 Road Movies
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100 Road Movies

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

100 Road Movies

About this book

In '100 Road Movies', each entry will offer an insightful critique in terms of aesthetics, plot structure and defining formal and thematic features, whilst also considering the title in the wider context and understanding of by what criteria a film may be considered a road movie. Full credits, including year of production, principal cast and technical crew and country of origin will also be included at the foot of each entry. There will be a selection of illustrative stills, approximately twenty-five in total. The scope is broad, a consideration of the elements that gave rise to the road movie sub-genre, how this sub-genre corresponds to other traditional genres (the thriller, the western etc) and how various international countries have adopted the road movie to reflect their cultural, social, political and geographical identities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Preface by Chris Petit
  6. Introduction
  7. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Stephan Elliott, 1994
  8. Badlands, Terrence Malick, 1973
  9. BombĂłn el perro, Carlos Sorin, 2004
  10. Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, 1967
  11. Boys on the Side, Herbert Ross, 1995
  12. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Sam Peckinpah, 1974
  13. Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch, 2005
  14. The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo, 2003
  15. Butterfly Kiss, Michael Winterbottom, 1995
  16. Bye Bye Brasil, Carlos Diegues, 1979
  17. Le Camion, Marguerite Duras, 1977
  18. Candy Mountain, Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer, 1987
  19. The Cannonball Run, Hal Needham, 1980
  20. Catch Us If You Can, John Boorman, 1965
  21. Cold Fever, Fridrik ThĂłr Fridriksson, 1995
  22. Dear Diary, Nanni Moretti, 1994
  23. Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945
  24. Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant, 1989
  25. Duel, Steven Spielberg, 1971
  26. Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper, 1969
  27. Exils, Tony Gatlif, 2004
  28. Familia rodante, Pablo Trapero, 2004
  29. Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson, 1970
  30. Gallivant, Andrew Kötting, 1996
  31. Get on the Bus, Spike Lee, 1996
  32. The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty Kick, Wim Wenders, 1971
  33. Le Grand Voyage, Ismaël Ferroukhi, 2004
  34. The Grapes of Wrath, John Ford, 1940
  35. Guantanamera, Tomås Gutiérrez Alea, 1995
  36. Gun Crazy, Joseph H. Lewis, 1949
  37. The Hit, Stephen Frears, 1984
  38. In This World, Michael Winterbottom, 2002
  39. Jizda, Jan SverĂĄk, 1994
  40. Journey to the Sun, Yesim Ustaoglu, 1999
  41. Kalifornia, Dominic Sena, 1993
  42. Kikujiro, Takeshi Kitano, 1999
  43. Kings of the Road, Wim Wenders, 1976
  44. Koktebel, Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky, 2003
  45. Landscape in the Mist, Theo Angelopoulos, 1988
  46. The Last Detail, Hal Ashby, 1973
  47. Last Orders, Fred Schepisi, 2001
  48. The Last Run, Richard Fleischer, 1971
  49. The Leather Boys, Sidney J. Furie, 1964
  50. Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Aki KaurismÀki, 1989
  51. The Living End, Gregg Araki, 1992
  52. Lost in America, Albert Brooks, 1985
  53. Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior), George Miller, 1981
  54. Merci la vie, Bertrand Blier, 1991
  55. Messidor, Alain Tanner, 1978
  56. Midnight Run, Martin Brest, 1988
  57. Minimal Stories, Carlos Sorin, 2002
  58. The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles, 2004
  59. My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant, 1991
  60. Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone, 1994
  61. Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987
  62. North on Evers, James Benning, 1992
  63. One False Move, Carl Franklin, 1991
  64. Out to the World, Yeo Kyun-dong, 1994
  65. Paper Moon, Peter Bogdanovich, 1973
  66. The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975
  67. Planes, Trains and Automobiles, John Hughes, 1987
  68. Poetic Justice, John Singleton, 1993
  69. Powwow Highway, Jonathan Wacks, 1988
  70. Radio On, Chris Petit, 1979
  71. Raising Arizona, Joel Coen, 1987
  72. Red Lights, CĂ©dric Kahn, 2004
  73. The Return, Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003
  74. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Zhang Yimou, 2005
  75. Road to Morocco, David Butler, 1942
  76. Roadside Prophets, Abbe Wool, 1992
  77. The Searchers, John Ford, 1956
  78. SER (Freedom is Paradise), Sergei Bodrov, 1989
  79. Sherman’s March, Ross McElwee, 1985
  80. Sideways, Alexander Payne, 2004
  81. Simple Men, Hal Hartley, 1992
  82. Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, Stefan Schwartz, 1992
  83. La strada, Federico Fellini, 1954
  84. The Straight Story, David Lynch, 1999
  85. Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch, 1984
  86. The Sugarland Express, Steven Spielberg, 1974
  87. Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges, 1941
  88. The Sure Thing, Rob Reiner, 1985
  89. Thelma & Louise, Ridley Scott, 1991
  90. Thieves Like Us, Robert Altman, 1973
  91. Thunder Road, Arthur Ripley, 1958
  92. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Michael Cimino, 1974
  93. Two-Lane Blacktop, Monte Hellman, 1971
  94. Vagabonde, AgnĂšs Varda, 1985
  95. Les Valseuses, Bertrand Blier, 1974
  96. Vanishing Point, Richard Sarafian, 1971
  97. Vendredi soir, Claire Denis, 2002
  98. El viaje, Fernando E. Solanas, 1991
  99. Voyage to Italy, Roberto Rossellini, 1953
  100. The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953
  101. Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
  102. Where is My Friend’s House?, Abbas Kiarostami, 1987
  103. Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman, 1957
  104. The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, 1939
  105. Wolf Creek, Greg McLean, 2005
  106. Y tu mamå también, Alfonso Cuarón, 2001
  107. Bibliography
  108. Index
  109. List of Illustrations
  110. eCopyright