Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ceruzzi, Paul E.

Titel

Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie

Ist Teil von

• Technology and Culture, 2003, Vol.44 (1), p.172-173

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

Project MUSE Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The road movie further expresses a tragic theme, in which those who take to the road as a form of rebellion eventually discover that the escape it offers is ephemeral and illusory. From those two pathbreaking movies came a series of variations on the theme, evolving into what the author calls the "postmodern" road movies of the 1980s and 1990s: On the Road included all the basic components: long passages simply about driving down a highway, freedom, rebellion, rejection of America while professinga love of America, sexual promiscuity, drug and alcohol use, jazz (morphed into rock and roll in the road movies), and the tragic ending.