Road Movies: From Muybridge and Méliès to Lynch and Kiarostami

by Devin Orgeron

Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive. It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a book about images of human mobility more generally and the social function those images have served. From Eadweard Muybridge's pre-cinematic experiments through contemporary films by David Lynch and Abbas Kiarostami, road movies are part of a larger imagistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230601278
• ISBN13: 9780230601277
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"