Road Movies: A Bibliography of Materials in the UCB Library

	Road Movies: A Bibliography of Materials in the UCB Library

	Reviews and criticism of individual road movie films Atkinson, Michael "Crossing the frontiers." Sight & Sound Vol IV nr 1 (Jan 1994); p 14-17 "The writer discusses recent road movies. He lists movies made since the late 1980s, demonstrating the flexibility and audience appeal of the genre. He contends that road movies express the fury and suffering of the marginalized and give their restless protagonists the false hope of a one-way ticket to nowhere. He considers that road movies are rarely box office hits, perhaps because the genre epitomizes so much of what is uneasy and ephemeral about our culture. He concludes that we may be nearing the age of the anti-road movie, or the revisionist road movie, when the genre will return from the mainstream marketplace to the cult status of the genre's best films." [Art Index] Atkinson, Michael "Crossing the frontiers: road movies." In: Ghosts in the machine : speculating on the dark heart of pop cinema / by Michael Atkinson. 1st Limelight ed. New York : Limelight Editions, 1999. Main Stack PN1995.A775 1999 Brereton, Pat. "Westerns, landscape and road movies." In: Hollywood utopia : ecology in contemporary American cinema. Bristol, UK ; Portland, Ore. : Intellect Books, 2005. Main Stack PN1995.9.N38.B74 2005 Cagle, Robert L. "Auto-Eroticism: Narcissism, Fetishism, and Consumer Culture." Cinema Journal. 33 (4): 23-33. 1994 Summer. Dargis, Manohla "Roads to freedom." (history and analysis of road movies ) Sight and Sound July 1991 v1 n3 p14(5) Davies, Jude. "Against the Los Angeles Symbolic: Unpacking the Racialized Discourse of the Automobile in 1980s and 1990s Cinema." In: Screening the city / edited by Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice. London ; New York : Verso, 2003. ENVI: PN1995.9.C513 S37 2003 MAIN: PN1995.9.C513 S37 2003 Dick, Leslie "Sight and Sound A-Z of cinema. R road." Sight & Sound Vol VII nr 11 (Nov 1997); p 22-24,26 A consideration of the road movie genre. Incl. a definition of the term and a chronology of a century of events and developments significant to the genre. Dimendberg, Edward. "The will to motorization: cinema, highways, and modernity." October (Cambridge, Mass) no73 Summer 1995. p. 90-137 Eyerman, Ron; Lofgren, Orvar. "Romancing the Road: Road Movies and Images of Mobility." Theory, Culture and Society 1995 Feb, 12:1, 53-79. UC users only Harris, Hilary. "Desert training for whites: Australian road movies.(Cultural narratives)." Journal of Australian Studies 86 (Jan 2006): 99(15). UC users only Indurain Eraso, Carmen. "Boys on the Side: Undermining the Road Movie's Generic Expectations." In: Beyond Borders: Re-Defining Generic and Ontological Boundaries. Edited by Ramon Plo-Alastrue, Maria Jesus Martinez-Alfaro. Place/Publisher Heidelberg : Universitatsverkag C. Winter, 2002. Main Stack PS228.P68.B49 2002 James, Caryn "On the road again: uneasy riders." (evaluation of road movies on video) The New York Times Feb 26, 1989 v138 s2 pH36(N) pH36(L) col 1 (6 col in) James, Caryn "Today's Yellow Brick Road leads straight to hell." (road movies and American culture) The New York Times August 19, 1990 v139 s2 pH1(N) pH1(L) col 1 (42 col in) Kolker, Robert Phillip. "On the Road: Exile and Innocence: Major theme and images in Wenders' films." In: The films of Wim Wenders : cinema as vision and desire / Robert Phillip Kolker, Peter Beicken. Cambridge [England];New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993. Moffitt PN1998.3.W46.K64 1993 Kuzniar, Alice. "Wenders's Windshields." In The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition. Edited by Roger F. Cook and Gerd Gemunden.Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c1997. MAIN: PN1998.3.W46 C56 1997; Laderman, David. Driving visions : exploring the road movie. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002. Main Stack PN1995.9.R63.L33 2002 Main Stack PN1995.9.R63.L33 2002">Contents via Google books Lang, Robert "My own private Idaho and the new new queer road movies." In: Masculine interests : homoerotics in Hollywood films New York : Columbia University Press, c2002. Film and culture. Main Stack PN1995.9.H55.L37 2002 Lost highways : an illustrated history of road movies Edited by] Jack Sargeant & Stephanie Watson. [London]: Creation, 1999. Creation cinema collection;15. Main Stack PN1995.9.R63.L67 1999 Lyons, Donald "Detours: the road movie." Film Comment v. 27 (July/August 1991) p. 2-3 "Road films sprang to life in the 1940s. World War II, the concomitant economic recovery, and the scattering of Americans gave people the opportunity and the desire to roam. Edgar G. Ulmer's 1946 film Detour is the fullest expression of the road picture aesthetic: sex is danger, life is a trap, and the road leads to nothingness. Carl Colpaert's recent film Delusion, which quotes from Detour in several scenes, shows the road movie in a state of self conscious and self referential reflection. It expresses little beyond its director's conviction that roads are metaphorically expressive and that greedy yuppies deserve whatever comes their way." [Art Index] Mazierska, Ewa. Crossing new Europe : postmodern travel and the European road movie London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2006. MAIN: PN1995.9.R63 M37 2006 Mcentee, Joy. "'Especially Hard on the Little Things': Fathers and Children on the Road in American Film." AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association. 96: 154-72. 2001 Nov. Mills, Katie The road story and the rebel : moving through film, fiction, and television Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2006. MAIN: PN1995.9.R63 M55 2006; BANC: PN1995.9.R63 M55 2006 Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005030355.html Mittman, Elizabeth. "Fantasizing Integration and Escape in the Post-Unification Road Movie." In: Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective / edited by Randall Halle and Margaret McCarthy. Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2003. MAIN: PN1993.5.G3 L54 2003 Morris, C. "The Reflexivity of the Road Film." Film Criticism v. 28 no. 1 (Fall 2003) p. 24-52 UC users only "The writer examines what road films have in common--the figure of the road--as a reflexive image of continuity and linearity. He discusses how the reflexivity of road films anticipates ideological stalemates about the genre by dramatizing paralysis and redundancy in reading. He asserts that the quests of the characters of road films are not only futile but repetitive. He argues that although the reflexivity of the road film may suggest in an abstract way the illusions of the simulacrum (Jean Baudrillard), the postal (Jacques Derrida), or irony (Paul De Man), the genius of film is to allegorize these failures concretely, in Beckett-like moments of dramatic action, in intertextuality, and in the figure of the road itself." [Art Index] Mottram, Eric. "Blood on the Nash Ambassador: Cars in American Films." In: Cinema, Politics and Society in America. Edited by Philip Davies and Brian Neve New York : St. Martin's Press, 1981 Moffitt PN1995.9.S6.C5 1981 Main Stack PN1995.9.S6.C5 1981b [another edition] Main Stack PN1995.9.S6.C55 [another edition] Nightingale, Benedict. "True (fugitive) romance: the movie genre." The New York Times 143 Sep 26 (1993): 15 sec 2. North, Sam. "Road Movies." [from Hackwrites.com web site] Odabashian, Barbara "On the Road Again: An American Archetype." In: Beyond the starsVolume 4: Locales in American Popular Film / edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller. Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press, c1990 Main Stack PN1995.9.C36.B49 1990 Moffitt PN1995.9.C36.B49 1990 Pilz, Kerstin. "Dreams of Escape: Variations of the Italian Road Movie." Romance Studies. 21 (2): 139-52. 2003 July. Rascaroli, Laura "New voyages to Italy: postmodern travellers and the Italian road film." Screen (London, England) v. 44 no. 1 (Spring 2003) p. 71-91 " European road films are examined with particular focus on the Italian road film. The writer highlights the differences between American road films and European road films of different types made since the 1930s before considering the ways in which recent European road films have reflected and investigated the complex issue of movement in and through Europe. She seeks to determine the extent to which travel films have engaged with the notion of a changing European sociogeographical space that, in turn, has produced new forms of national and transnational identity. She then examines the tradition of the Italian road film in order to show that some recent Italian films rework the national cinematographic history, and especially the tradition of postwar neorealism, thereby recovering the exploratory and critical spirit activated by the particular historical circumstances of neorealism." [Art Index] The Road Movie Book Edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark. London; New York: Routledge, 1997. Main Stack PN1995.9.R63.R63 1997 Tharp, Julie. "'Fine Ponies': Cars in American Indian Film and Literature." American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 24 (3): 77-91. 2000. Von Doviak, Scott Hick flicks : the rise and fall of redneck cinema Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2005. Part Two explores road movies, featuring back-road racers, truckers and everything in between. Part Two explores road movies, featuring back-road racers, truckers and everything in between. PFA : PN1995.9.R33 V66 2005 Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004023952.html Wolff, Janet "On the road again: Metaphors of travel in cultural criticism." Cultural Studies, 7:2, 224 - 239 Woodrow, Ingrid. "Road Trip." Journal of Australian Studies (Sept 1998): 162(1). UC users only The influence of automobile driving on culture is described. Media portrayals creating equivalent states between freedom and automobiles, memories of previous trips by car, and the geographical fact of all Australian roads leading to the ocean are recounted. The myth of travel may dominate the experience of travel. Borat Jaafar, Ali. "Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." Sight and Sound 16.11 (Nov 2006): 50(2). UC users only Lee, Nathan "Persona non grata." Film Comment Vol XLII nr 6 (Nov-Dec 2006); p.22-24 Looks at British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's film "Borat: cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan". Monaghan, Peter. "'Borat' and Bias Against Romany People." The Chronicle of Higher Education 53.15 (Dec 1, 2006): NA. UC users only Muravchik, Joshua. "Borat!." Commentary 123.1 (Jan 2007): 44(4). UC users only Saunders, Robert A. "In defence of Kazakshilik:, Kazakhstan's war on Sacha Baron Cohen.(Author abstract)." Identities 14.3 (May-June 2007): 225(31). "This article explores the controversy surrounding Borat Sagdiyev--the fictitious Kazakhstani reporter whose foibles mock Kazakhstan in particular and post-Soviet culture in general. With his appearances on Da Ali G Show, Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat persona long ago became the bete noire of the Kazakhstani government. However, when Borat was selected to host the MTV Europe Music Awards, the dispute over Borat's authenticity as a Kazakhstani became an international incident. In response to his negative portrayal of Kazakshilik (Kazakhness) through the deterritorialized medium of MTV, the government of President Nazarbayev threatened Baron Cohen with legal action and brought down his web site borat.kz. Baron Cohen immediately responded in character via his new domain (.tv) and defended the actions of Kazakhstan, thus fuelling the controversy. The ongoing feud has prompted an interesting postmodern praxis--one in which a fictional persona and national government can carry on a mass-mediated dialogue. As I document the details of this ongoing conflict on the global and local levels, I seek to explain the changes in the international system which have enabled this intriguing paradox. In doing so, I attempt to draw some larger conclusions on the importance of protecting national identity in the postmodern era, especially from threats (both internal and external) which weaken a country's global brand." [Expanded Academic Index] Schwartz, Stephen, Rafael Medoff, L.H. Blum, Lon Jacobs, and Joshua Muravchik. "No laughing matter?(Letters from Readers)(Letter to the editor)." Commentary 123.4 (April 2007): 16(3). UC users only