Overview

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), TheGlobal 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.

Full Product Details

Author:   José Duarte (University of Lisbon, Portugal) ,  Timothy Corrigan
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781783208777

ISBN 10:   1783208775
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   15 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: From American Roads to Global Highways Timothy Corrigan and José Duarte   Section 1: The Americas Chapter 1: Learning to Drive: Midcentury Guidance Films and the  Middle-of-the-Road Politics of the American Road Movie by Devin Orgeron Chapter 2: The Colombian Road Movie: Uses and Abuses of a Film Genre by Jamie Correa Chapter 3: Notes on a Journey from Guantánamo to Havana: Guantanamera Revisited as Winds of Change Hit US-Cuba Relations by Hermínia Sol   Section 2: Africa  Chapter 4: Departing from Anti-Colonialism, Arriving at Afropolitanism: Africa United as an African Road Movie by James M. Hodapp Chapter 5: The Road and Transatlantic Currents in the Cinema of Licínio Azevedo by Sara Brandellero    Section 3: Asia and Australia  Chapter 6: The Palestinian Road(block) Movie: Interrupted Journeys in Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention by Drew Paul Chapter 7: Song of the Big Road: Negotiating Scale in the Road Films of Twenty-First-Century India by Lars Erik Larson  Chapter 8: Provincializing the Road Movie: Realism, Epic and Mobility in Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik by Moira Weigal Chapter 9: Navigating Gender, Ethnicity and Space: Five Golden Flowers as a Socialist Road Movie by Ling Zhang Chapter 10: Genre at a Crossroads: The Korean Road Movie by Joseph Pomp Chapter 11: Wrong Side of the Road: Crossing Cultures, Traversing Forms and the Blackfella Road Movie by Keith Beattie    Section 4: Europe  Chapter 12: Et in Arcadia Ego: Precarious Romaniticism and the English Road Movie by Neil Archer Chapter 13: Bumps on the ‘Road to Europe’: Remaking the Road Movies and Re-mapping the Nation in Post-2004 Central Europe by Micheal Gott and Kris Van Heuckelom Chapter 14: The Road Movie in Portuguese Cinema by Filipa Rosário Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors

Reviews

Excellent collection . . . . Meticulously detailed and flawlessly written, The Global Road Movie is a one-of-a-kind guide to world cinema on the move. --CHOICE

In addition to this eclectic focus on Asia, other sections consider the road movies of The Americas, Africa and Europe, issues as wide-ranging as the thawing of US-Cuban relations, the debate about Afropolitanism in representations of Africa and the traces of Romanticism found in the contemporary British road movie. In their introduction, Corrigan and Duarte state that 'there is perhaps no film culture across the globe that has not embraced the road movie'. The diversity of contributors, approaches and films discussed in The Global Road Movie goes some way towards proving this claim. --John A. Riley East Asian Journal of Popular Culture Duarte and Timothy Corrigan's co-edited volume, The Global Road Movie: Alternative Journeys around the World, effectively captures the best of current road movie scholarship, inviting readers to follow the genre further still. . . . The Global Road Movie, in sum, reaches far and wide to make known a rich diversity of road movies from around the world. In its quest to expand the genre's scholarly canon with more extensive travels, it broadens the horizon--just as any good road movie does. --David Laderman, Film Quarterly Excellent collection . . . . Meticulously detailed and flawlessly written, The Global Road Movie is a one-of-a-kind guide to world cinema on the move. --CHOICE

Author Information

José Duarte teaches 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 and the author of The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker.

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