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Lumiere
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| Title |
Defining a New Genre/Part 1: The Road Movie |
| Author(s) | Graham Barry |
| Page Number |
22 - 25 |
| Comments |
Although Barry - the then executive secretary in New South Wales of the National Film Theatre in Australia - is writing for Lumiere, an Australian publication, the biggest disappointment is that when discussing Road Movies, he talks about them strictly in the bounds of American pop-culture.
While he considers "...Europeans [who] have been long obsessed by the subject of a metaphysical journey"(p. 24), the notion of grafting the genre onto the Australian consciousness does not factor into Barry's argument whatsoever.
It would be interesting to see how Barry would have interpreted the genre several years later in the wake of Australian Road Movies such as 'Oz', 'The F.J. Holden' and 'The Cars that Ate Paris' - not to mention all three Mad Max's!
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| Synopsis |
As the title suggests, Barry attempts to provide a definition for what he considers the 'new' genre of the Road Movie, exasperating that genres "...have this continual tendency to break their own bounds. They grow woolly at the edges, borrow unscrupulously at one another, even develop other genres entirely"(p. 22).
Barry makes an interesting statement about space and temporality in the Road
Movie genre, stating that "the sight of an overhead route sign is like a signpost to another world"(p. 23).
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