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100 Road Movies
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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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface by Chris Petit
- Introduction
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Stephan Elliott, 1994
- Badlands, Terrence Malick, 1973
- Bombón el perro, Carlos Sorin, 2004
- Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, 1967
- Boys on the Side, Herbert Ross, 1995
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Sam Peckinpah, 1974
- Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch, 2005
- The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo, 2003
- Butterfly Kiss, Michael Winterbottom, 1995
- Bye Bye Brasil, Carlos Diegues, 1979
- Le Camion, Marguerite Duras, 1977
- Candy Mountain, Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer, 1987
- The Cannonball Run, Hal Needham, 1980
- Catch Us If You Can, John Boorman, 1965
- Cold Fever, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, 1995
- Dear Diary, Nanni Moretti, 1994
- Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945
- Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant, 1989
- Duel, Steven Spielberg, 1971
- Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper, 1969
- Exils, Tony Gatlif, 2004
- Familia rodante, Pablo Trapero, 2004
- Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson, 1970
- Gallivant, Andrew Kötting, 1996
- Get on the Bus, Spike Lee, 1996
- The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty Kick, Wim Wenders, 1971
- Le Grand Voyage, Ismaël Ferroukhi, 2004
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Ford, 1940
- Guantanamera, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1995
- Gun Crazy, Joseph H. Lewis, 1949
- The Hit, Stephen Frears, 1984
- In This World, Michael Winterbottom, 2002
- Jizda, Jan Sverák, 1994
- Journey to the Sun, Yesim Ustaoglu, 1999
- Kalifornia, Dominic Sena, 1993
- Kikujiro, Takeshi Kitano, 1999
- Kings of the Road, Wim Wenders, 1976
- Koktebel, Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky, 2003
- Landscape in the Mist, Theo Angelopoulos, 1988
- The Last Detail, Hal Ashby, 1973
- Last Orders, Fred Schepisi, 2001
- The Last Run, Richard Fleischer, 1971
- The Leather Boys, Sidney J. Furie, 1964
- Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Aki Kaurismäki, 1989
- The Living End, Gregg Araki, 1992
- Lost in America, Albert Brooks, 1985
- Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior), George Miller, 1981
- Merci la vie, Bertrand Blier, 1991
- Messidor, Alain Tanner, 1978
- Midnight Run, Martin Brest, 1988
- Minimal Stories, Carlos Sorin, 2002
- The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles, 2004
- My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant, 1991
- Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone, 1994
- Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987
- North on Evers, James Benning, 1992
- One False Move, Carl Franklin, 1991
- Out to the World, Yeo Kyun-dong, 1994
- Paper Moon, Peter Bogdanovich, 1973
- The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles, John Hughes, 1987
- Poetic Justice, John Singleton, 1993
- Powwow Highway, Jonathan Wacks, 1988
- Radio On, Chris Petit, 1979
- Raising Arizona, Joel Coen, 1987
- Red Lights, Cédric Kahn, 2004
- The Return, Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003
- Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Zhang Yimou, 2005
- Road to Morocco, David Butler, 1942
- Roadside Prophets, Abbe Wool, 1992
- The Searchers, John Ford, 1956
- SER (Freedom is Paradise), Sergei Bodrov, 1989
- Sherman’s March, Ross McElwee, 1985
- Sideways, Alexander Payne, 2004
- Simple Men, Hal Hartley, 1992
- Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, Stefan Schwartz, 1992
- La strada, Federico Fellini, 1954
- The Straight Story, David Lynch, 1999
- Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch, 1984
- The Sugarland Express, Steven Spielberg, 1974
- Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges, 1941
- The Sure Thing, Rob Reiner, 1985
- Thelma & Louise, Ridley Scott, 1991
- Thieves Like Us, Robert Altman, 1973
- Thunder Road, Arthur Ripley, 1958
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Michael Cimino, 1974
- Two-Lane Blacktop, Monte Hellman, 1971
- Vagabonde, Agnès Varda, 1985
- Les Valseuses, Bertrand Blier, 1974
- Vanishing Point, Richard Sarafian, 1971
- Vendredi soir, Claire Denis, 2002
- El viaje, Fernando E. Solanas, 1991
- Voyage to Italy, Roberto Rossellini, 1953
- The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953
- Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
- Where is My Friend’s House?, Abbas Kiarostami, 1987
- Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman, 1957
- The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, 1939
- Wolf Creek, Greg McLean, 2005
- Y tu mamá también, Alfonso Cuarón, 2001
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Illustrations
- eCopyright