ARTH 691 - The Road Movie

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Beckman. This course will allow us to study the changing shape of the road movie genre from Bonnie and Clyde (1967) to the French feminist revenge narrative, Baise-moi (Rape me), (2000). In addition to considering the possibilities and limits of genre as a category of analysis, we will grapple with a number of questions that will persist throughout the course: What is the relationship between cinema and the automobile Is the road trip a particularly American fantasy, and if so, what does it mean when non-U.S. filmmakers adopt the road-movie genre Is the road movie a "masculine" genre What role do urban and rural spaces play in the development of the genre What happens to race/gender/sexuality/national identity in the road movie What kinds of borders does this genre dream of crossing Do the radical fantasies of characters within the road movie genre necessarily translate into films with radical politics

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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