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The Global Road Movie : alternative journeys around the world.

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 na...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Duarte, José, Corrigan, Timothy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd, 2018.
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: From American Roads to Global Highways; Section 1: The Americas; Chapter 1: Learning to Drive: Midcentury Guidance Films and the Middle-of-the-Road Politics of the American Road Movie; Chapter 2: The Colombian Road Movie: Uses and Abuses of a Film Genre; Chapter 3: Notes on a Journey from Guantánamo to Havana: Guantanamera Revisited as Winds of Change Hit US-Cuba Relations; Section 2: Africa; Chapter 4: Departing from Anti-Colonialism, Arriving at Afropolitanism: Africa United as an African Road Movie.
  • Chapter 5: The Road and Transatlantic Currents in the Cinema of LicÃƯnio AzevedoSection 3: Asia and Australia; Chapter 6: The Palestinian Road(block) Movie: Interrupted Journeys in Elia Suleimanâ#x80;#x99;s Divine Intervention; Chapter 7: Song of the Big Road: Negotiating Scale in the Road Films of Twenty-First-Century India; Chapter 8: Provincializing the Road Movie: Realism, Epic and Mobility in Ritwik Ghatakâ#x80;#x99;s Ajantrik; Chapter 9: Navigating Gender, Ethnicity and Space: Five Golden Flowers as a Socialist Road Movie; Chapter 10: Genre at a Crossroads: The Korean Road Movie.
  • Chapter 11: Wrong Side of the Road: Crossing Cultures, Traversing Forms and the Blackfella Road MovieSection 4: Europe; Chapter 12: Et in Arcadia Ego: Precarious Romanticism and the English Road Movie; Chapter 13: Bumps on the â#x80;#x98;Road to Europeâ#x80;#x99;: Remaking the Road Movie and Re-mapping the Nation in Post-2004 Central Europe; Chapter 14: The Road Movie in Portuguese Cinema; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index; Back Cover.