Published: 2021-12-19

Buddies, Lovers, and Detours: America and its Road Movies

Sasha Gora

Abstract

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.

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Gora, S. (2021). Buddies, Lovers, and Detours: America and its Road Movies. Review of International American Studies, 14(2), 103–119. https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.11809

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Car Culture(s): Machines, Roads, Mythologies

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
Published: 2021-12-19


eISSN: 1991-2773
Ikona DOI 10.31261/RIAS

Publisher
University of Silesia Press

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