Road Movies
eBook - PDF

Road Movies

From Muybridge and Méliès to Lynch and Kiarostami

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Road Movies

From Muybridge and Méliès to Lynch and Kiarostami

About this book

Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive. It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a book about images of human mobility more generally and the social function those images have served.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction Road Work Ahead
  9. 1 Early Cinema and the Mobilization of Narrative
  10. 2 Highways and Trails Postwar American Cinema and the Journey Home in Detour and The Searchers
  11. 3 Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and the Road to the Road Movie
  12. 4 Misreading America in Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider
  13. 5 Kings of the Road Wim Wenders and the Mobile Home Movie
  14. 6 Roads and Movies as Another Century Turns Oliver Stone and David Lynch
  15. Epilogue New Directions and Intersections The Road Reworked and the Case of Abbas Kiarostami
  16. Bibliography
  17. Notes
  18. Index