road movie

Definitions

A film in which much of the action takes place during a journey, especially one involving overland travel.

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“For Timothy Corrigan, the road movie is ‘traditionally focused, almost exclusively, on men and the absence of women’ (1991: 143). David Laderman elucidates: Most road movies … retain⟳ a traditional sexist hierarchy that privileges the white heterosexual male, in terms of narrative and point⟳ of view⟳. As in typical Hollywood films, the road movie tends to define⟳ the active impulse (here, to drive⟳) relegating women characters to passive passengers and/or erotic destinations. (2002: 20)”

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