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Road Movies: From Muybridge and Méliès to Lynch and Kiarostami

By: Publication details: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: 239ISBN:
  • 9780230601277
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4362 ORG
Summary: Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive. It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a book about images of human mobility more generally and the social function those images have served. From Eadweard Muybridge pre cinematic experiments through contemporary films by David Lynch and Abbas Kiarostami, road movies are part of a larger imagistic tradition focused on the social costs of modernity and the consequences of a culture moving often quite rapidly away from the stabilizing structures of community and communication.
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Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive. It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a book about images of human mobility more generally and the social function those images have served. From Eadweard Muybridge pre cinematic experiments through contemporary films by David Lynch and Abbas Kiarostami, road movies are part of a larger imagistic tradition focused on the social costs of modernity and the consequences of a culture moving often quite rapidly away from the stabilizing structures of community and communication.

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