The Global Road Movie

Alternative Journeys around the World

By: José Duarte (Editor), Timothy Corrigan (Editor)

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eBook | 9 April 2018 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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'The road movie, in which one person or a group of people hits the road in search of adventure, has often been described as a uniquely American subgenre. But this is national chauvinism on the part of the US, as Duarte (Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal) and Corrigan (Univ. of Pennsylvania), the editors of this excellent collection, ably demonstrate. After a brief introductory essay, the book takes the reader on a global tour of the road movie, with stops in Colombia, Cuba, Libya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, China, Palestine, India, Korea, Portugal, England, and numerous other countries. Along the way the book introduces the reader to a veritable avalanche of films that share a common dream: there is something at the end of the road that will change one's life. Offering contributions by a gallery of top-notch scholars (Devin Orgeron, Jaime Correa, Sara Brandellero, Ling Zhang, et al.), all experts in their respective geographical areas, the volume includes detailed analyses of myriad films, and mentions myriads more as subjects for additional research. Meticulously detailed and flawlessly written, The Global Road Movie is a one-of-a-kind guide to world cinema on the move.'