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The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass audience and the mass produced automobile opened up the road to the ordinary American. When Jean Baudrillard equated modern American culture with 'space, speed, cinema, technology' he could just as easily have added that the road movie is its supreme emblem. The contributors explore how the road movie has confronted and represented issues of nationhood, sexuality, gender, class and race. They map the generic terrain of the road movie, trace its evolution on American television as well as on the big screen from the 1930s through the 1980s, and, finally, consider road movies that go off the road, departing from the US landscape or travelling on the margins of contemporary American culture. Movies discussed include: * Road classics such as It Happened One Night, The Grapes of Wrath, The Wizard of Oz and the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Road to films * 1960's reworkings of the road movie in Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde * Russ Meyer's road movies: from Motorpsycho! to Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! * Contemporary hits such as Paris Texas, Rain Man, Natural Born Killers and Thelma and Louise * The road movie, Australian style, from Mad Max to the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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5.0 von 5 Sternen Umfassend und detailliert, 28. August 1999
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: The Road Movie Book (Taschenbuch)
Zu Road Movies gibt es nur sehr wenig Literatur. Wer aber auch bei der kleinen Auswahl kein Risiko eingehen möchte, wird mit diesem Buch bestimmt zufrieden sein. Es beleuchtet wesentliche Stationen der Entwicklung diese Genres. Beiträge zu den einzelnen Themen werden von verschiedenen Autoren beigesteuert, die auf ihrem Gebiet besonders bewandert sind. Gelesen habe ich bisher nicht jeden Beitrag. Doch von den Essays, die ich bisher gelesen habe, bin ich begeistert. besonders gelungen ist Barbara Klingers Beitrag zu dem Roadmovie Easy Rider. Sie greift nicht nur die konventionellen Interpretationsebenen dieses Films auf, sondern widmet sich auch der Landschaftsdarstellung in den Sequenzen der "road montages". Sie ermöglicht einem, den Film nochmals aus einer anderen Perspektive mit mehr Blick fürs Detail zu betrachten. Andere Filme und Serien, die in diesem Buch Beachtung finden: It happened one night, The Grapes of Wrath und andere frühe Roadmovies, Route 66, Honkytonk Man Bronco Billy, Bonnie and Clyde, Gun Crazy, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Natural Born Killers, Midnight Run, Thelma and Louise, Mad Max, The Wizard of Oz, Priscilla - Queen of the Desert, To Wong Foo, The living End, My own Private Idaho und... und... und... (Dies ist eine Amazon.de an der Uni-Studentenrezension.)
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4.0 von 5 Sternen Literally Unique, 19. Januar 1999
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: The Road Movie Book (Taschenbuch)
What I found unusual about this book is that there seem to be very few existing titles which try to define the Road movie as this book does . Subsequently you want this book to go further than it does. You read it and wonder why so many movies have been ignored or passed over for debate. This however is not a critism as a comment on the difficulty of trying to define a film 'genre'. Steven Cohan does well to pull together a collection of diverse and engaging essays on everything from Easy rider to old Bob Hope movies. The essay on Easy Rider by Barbara Klinger is particularly interesting because it touches on the very crux of the Road Movie genre: the representation of the American phsyce. All these essays chronicle how Road movies have reflected recent American history from the Depression through the Second World War through to modern times. I am still suprised that this book is the first of its kind because movies like EASY RIDER, THELMA AND LOUISE, PARIS,TEXAS, et all touch so deeply into the American identity. Which begs the question why so little is included about the likes of American Grafitti, Dazed and Confused, Fandango etc. A fantastic read none the less. I think this book would appeal to American historians as much as Film buffs, film makers, artists or (like me) students of Architecture and landscape. Get in a car, hit the Road,read this book.