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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"road movie"”.
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Roads to the Self: Unearthing the Foundations of the Road Movie
This study explores ten “road movies” made between 1945 and 2005 chosen as exemplary in global cinema. The films originated in the U.S., Italy, Germany, Brazil, Japan, Morocco and France. The project is based on library research and film viewing and uses eclectic methods and theories embracing …
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Life after/before
… understanding. Through a blend of journal, road movie, and family album styles, Life After/Before becomes both a personal archive and a broader commentary on cultural heritage. This project underscores how artistic practices can effectively process complex emotions and histories, revealing …
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From Autoroute to AutoBioBD: The minority voice in Bande Dessinée
… by two artists, Baru and Fabrice Neaud. Baru’s road movie-inspired L’Autoroute du Soleil and Neaud’s autobiographical Journal project form two of the major case studies in the final chapters, and lend the thesis part of its title.
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Independent Visions of Marginal America: Reimagining a Nation Through Outsiders, Searching, and Non-Arrival
… contrasted with films that reinterpret the road-movie structure away from existential angst and toward richer ambiguities: Alambrista! (1977), Gummo, Stroszek, Chan is Missing, and The Watermelon Woman (1996). Transnationality reflects in the content and production of many “outsider” films; …
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Seeking the other shore : myth and history in the films of Terrence Malick
… its hybrid genre (drawing on the western and the road movie), before I investigate Holly and Kit's "competing fantasies"- their different views of their adventure and the land through which they travel. Days of Heaven represents a complex examination of the Turnerian myth of the frontier and its …