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Lumiere
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| Title |
Defining a New Genre/Part 2: The Expanding Influence of the Road Movie. |
| Author(s) | Graham Barry |
| Page Number |
24 - 27 |
| Comments |
In this, the second part of Barry's investigation into the Road Movie genre, Barry provides us with short synopsises and readings of various then contemporary American Road films, yet does not really satisfy his objective of actually 'defining' the genre.
This is the earliest article I have found regarding Road Movies, yet it is one of the least satisfactory. Concedingly, this is not really the fault of the author though, as he himself was trying to articulate a then new genre. Evidently, Barry was unable to draw upon other theorists surmising, quite simply because they had not yet been theorised! |
| Synopsis |
In the beginning of this article, Barry poses the question "..So what is genre for anyway"(p. 27), answering "...Genre is... a frame for reference for a serious study of the cinema, just as auteur theory is, and it is on this level that the road genre can be best appreciated"(p. 27)
Barry goes on to discuss then contemporary Road Films, namely Easy Rider, Two-Lane Blacktop and Bonnie and Clyde, and the manner by which "...the road genre is a mirror of contemporary america and the state it has reached all unknowingly with the growth of the car, the highway and the pressures of society"(p. 26).
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