NMC Library
Image from Google Jackets

The road story and the rebel : moving through film, fiction, and television / Katie Mills.

By: Publication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2006.Description: xiii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780809327096 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0809327090 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780809327102 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0809327104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6552 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.R63 M55 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: what automobility offers cultural studies -- Rewriting prohibitions with narratives of possibility -- Before the road genre: the beats and on the road -- TV gets hip on Route 66 -- Kesey's quixotic acid road film -- Road film rising: Hell's Angels, merry pranksters, and easy -- Riders -- Genre and gender in 1970s new Hollywood -- Back to the family, or, rewinding the postmodern road story -- Rebels with a cause: genre and identity politics -- First-person players: the digital, "transmedia" road story.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.

Introduction: what automobility offers cultural studies -- Rewriting prohibitions with narratives of possibility -- Before the road genre: the beats and on the road -- TV gets hip on Route 66 -- Kesey's quixotic acid road film -- Road film rising: Hell's Angels, merry pranksters, and easy -- Riders -- Genre and gender in 1970s new Hollywood -- Back to the family, or, rewinding the postmodern road story -- Rebels with a cause: genre and identity politics -- First-person players: the digital, "transmedia" road story.

Powered by Koha