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Author Mills, Katie, 1956-

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

Imprint Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  791.436552 M626r 2006    ---  Available
Description xiii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.
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.
Subject Road films -- History and criticism.
ISBN 0809327104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780809327096 (cloth : alk. paper)
0809327090 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780809327102 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2369626
YDXCP 2376095
NZ1 10793405

 
    
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