Buddies, lovers, and detours: America and its road movies
- Is an open road also a democratic one? Zooming in on two films—Queen & Slim (2019) and Unpregnant (2020)—this article discusses American road movie genre from the perspective of 2021, and how contemporary film narratives intersect with race and gender. One movie often drives in another film’s lane, meaning the genre is self-referential. Unfolding in three parts, the article begins by introducing these two films and surveying how they contribute to the road movie genre. It then discusses cars and clothing as characters and concludes by considering surveillance and how these films, in tandem, take the temperature of contemporary American society.
| Author: | L. Sasha GoraORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1089752 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/108975 |
| ISSN: | 1991-2773OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Review of International American Studies |
| Publisher: | University of Silesia Press |
| Place of publication: | Katowice |
| Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/12/19 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2023/11/10 |
| Tag: | Anthropology; Cultural Studies; History; Literature and Literary Theory |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 103 |
| Last Page: | 119 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.11809 |
| Institutes: | Philologisch-Historische Fakultät |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte | |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte / DFG-Heisenberg Professur für Globale Umweltgeschichte und Environmental Humanities | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
| Licence (German): |  CC-BY-SA 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
