The Global Road Movie

'In addition to this eclectic focus on Asia, other sections consider the road movies of The Americas, Africa and Europe, issues as wide-ranging as the thawing of USCuban relations, the debate about Afropolitanism in representations of Africa and the traces of Romanticism found in the contemporary British road movie. In their introduction, Corrigan and Duarte state that "there is perhaps no film culture across the globe that has not embraced the road movie". The diversity of contributors, approaches and films discussed in The Global Road Movie goes some way towards proving this claim.' -- John A. Riley, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 5.1 'Duarte and Timothy Corrigans co-edited volume, The Global Road Movie: Alternative Journeys around the World, effectively captures the best of current road movie scholarship, inviting readers to follow the genre further still The Global Road Movie, in sum, reaches far and wide to make known a rich diversity of road movies from around the world. In its quest to expand the genres scholarly canon with more extensive travels, it broadens the horizonjust as any good road movie does.' -- David Laderman, Film Quarterly, Spring 2019 'The road movie, in which one person or a group of people hits the road in search of adventure, has often been described as a uniquely American subgenre. But this is national chauvinism on the part of the US, as Duarte (Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal) and Corrigan (Univ. of Pennsylvania), the editors of this excellent collection, ably demonstrate. After a brief introductory essay, the book takes the reader on a global tour of the road movie, with stops in Colombia, Cuba, Libya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, China, Palestine, India, Korea, Portugal, England, and numerous other countries. Along the way the book introduces the reader to a veritable avalanche of films that share a common dream: there is something at the end of the road that will change one's life. Offering contributions by a gallery of top-notch scholars (Devin Orgeron, Jaime Correa, Sara Brandellero, Ling Zhang, et al.), all experts in their respective geographical areas, the volume includes detailed analyses of myriad films, and mentions myriads more as subjects for additional research. Meticulously detailed and flawlessly written, The Global Road Movie is a one-of-a-kind guide to world cinema on the move.' -- W. W. Dixon, Choice Connect, Vol 56. No. 6

Jos Duarte teaches cinema at the School of Arts and Humanities, Universidade de Lisboa. Timothy Corrigan is professor of English and cinema studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker.

Introduction: From American Roads to Global Highways Timothy Corrigan and Jos Duarte Section 1: The Americas Chapter 1: Learning to Drive: Midcentury Guidance Films and the Middle-of-the-Road Politics of the American Road Movie by Devin Orgeron Chapter 2: The Colombian Road Movie: Uses and Abuses of a Film Genre by Jamie Correa Chapter 3: Notes on a Journey from Guantnamo to Havana: Guantanamera Revisited as Winds of Change Hit US-Cuba Relations by Hermnia Sol Section 2: Africa Chapter 4: Departing from Anti-Colonialism, Arriving at Afropolitanism: Africa United as an African Road Movie by James M. Hodapp Chapter 5: The Road and Transatlantic Currents in the Cinema of Licnio Azevedo by Sara Brandellero Section 3: Asia and Australia Chapter 6: The Palestinian Road(block) Movie: Interrupted Journeys in Elia Suleimans Divine Intervention by Drew Paul Chapter 7: Song of the Big Road: Negotiating Scale in the Road Films of Twenty-First-Century India by Lars Erik Larson Chapter 8: Provincializing the Road Movie: Realism, Epic and Mobility in Ritwik Ghataks Ajantrik by Moira Weigal Chapter 9: Navigating Gender, Ethnicity and Space: Five Golden Flowers as a Socialist Road Movie by Ling Zhang Chapter 10: Genre at a Crossroads: The Korean Road Movie by Joseph Pomp Chapter 11: Wrong Side of the Road: Crossing Cultures, Traversing Forms and the Blackfella Road Movie by Keith Beattie Section 4: Europe Chapter 12: Et in Arcadia Ego: Precarious Romaniticism and the English Road Movie by Neil Archer Chapter 13: Bumps on the Road to Europe: Remaking the Road Movies and Re-mapping the Nation in Post-2004 Central Europe by Micheal Gott and Kris Van Heuckelom Chapter 14: The Road Movie in Portuguese Cinema by Filipa Rosrio Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors