{"product_id":"road-movie-book","title":"Road Movie Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Road Movie Book\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eMovies discussed include:\u003cbr\u003e* Road classics such as \u003cem\u003eIt Happened One Night\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/em\u003e and the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Road to films\u003cbr\u003e* 1960's reworkings of the road movie in \u003cem\u003eEasy Rider\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBonnie and Clyde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Russ Meyer's road movies: from \u003cem\u003eMotorpsycho!\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eFaster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Contemporary hits such as \u003cem\u003eParis Texas, Rain Man, Natural Born Killers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThelma and Louise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* The road movie, Australian style, from \u003cem\u003eMad Max\u003c\/em\u003e to the \u003cem\u003eAdventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54235947368792,"sku":"9780415149365","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415149365.jpg?v=1779170479","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/road-movie-book","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}