Chapter 14. The road movie in Portuguese cinema / Filipa Rosário. Section 1: The Americas. Chapter 1. Learning to drive: midcentury guidance films and the middle-of-the-road politics of the American road movie / David Orgeron -- Chapter 2. The Colombian road movie: uses and abuses of a film genre / Jaime Correa -- Chapter 3. Notes on a journey from Guantánamo to Havana: Guantanamera revisited as winds of change hit US-Cuba relations / Hermínia Sol -- Section 2: Africa. Chapter 4. Departing from anti-colonialism, arriving at Afropolitanism: Africa United as an African road movie / James M. Hodapp -- Chapter 5. The road and transatlantic currents in the cinema of Licínio Azevedo / Sara Brandellero -- Section 3: Asia and Australia. Chapter 6. The Palestinian road(block) movie: interrupted journeys in Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention / Drew Paul -- Chapter 7. Song of the big road: negotiating scale in the road films of twenty-first-century India / Lars Erik Larson -- Chapter 8. Provincializing the road movie: realism, epic and mobility in Ritwik Ghatak's Ajantrik / Moira Weigel -- Chapter 9. Navigating gender, ethnicity and space: Five Golden Flowers as a socialist road movie / Ling Zhang -- Chapter 10. Genre at a crossroads: the Korean road movie / Joseph Pomp -- Chapter 11. Wrong Side of the Road: crossing cultures, traversing forms and the blackfella road movie / Keith Beattie -- Section 4: Europe. Chapter 12. Et in Arcadia Ego: precarious romanticism and the English road movie / Neil Archer -- Chapter 13. Bumps on the 'Road to Europe': remaking the road movie and re-mapping the nation in post-2004 Central Europe / Michael Gott and Kris Van Heuckelom -- Chapter 14. The road movie in Portuguese cinema / Filipa Rosário.
Summary:
The road movie is one of the most tried and true genres, a staple since the earliest days of cinema. This book looks at the road movie from a wider perspective than ever before, exploring the motif of travel not just in American films - where it has been most prominent - but via movies from other nations as well. Gathering contributions from around the world, the book shows how the road movie, altered and refracted in every new international iteration, offers a new way of thinking about the ever-shifting sense of place and space in the globalized world. Through analyses of such films as Guantanamera (Cuba), Wrong Side of the Road (Australia), Five Golden Flowers (China), Africa United (South Africa) and Sightseers (England), The Global Road Movie enables us to think afresh about how today's road movies fit into the history of the genre, and what they can tell us about how people move about in the world today.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.