| Reference Type |
Sight and Sound
journal
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| Title |
'R' is for Road |
| Author(s) | Leslie Dick |
| Volume |
7 |
| Issue |
11 |
| Page Number |
22 - 28 |
| Comments |
Essentially, Leslie Dick provides a 'nuts and bolts' of the Road Movie genre, bequeathing his readership with an exhaustive timeline of the evolution of the genre, beginning pre-cinema in 1884 with the "Medium-speed interval engine invented by Gottlieb Daimler in Germany"(p. 29)
Dick is resourceful and entertaining in his article, drawing from numerous and varying disciplines and philosophies in surmising the Road Movie genre.
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| Synopsis |
Leslie Dick begins his article by recounting the history of the Road Movie, stating that "the social fragmentation that resulted" from World War 2 with, "..women working, families separated, alienated individuals, and so on"(p. 28), provided the fundamental precondition of the road movie.
However, the philosophical underpinning of the genre is "the potential fluidity of identity... on the road, nobody knows you - so you can be anybody, become anything. You can even disappear"(p. 27)
From this, Dick discusses the role of 'space' in the road film, whereby "..momentum is sustained by the actual movement of the car"(p. 28) with "..the long shot - the car moving through a vast and empty landscape - implying sexual possibility"(p. 28) |
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