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European road movies also examine post-colonialism, "disclocation, memory and identity". Road movies from Spain have a strong American influence, with the films incorporating the road movie-comedy genre hybrid made popular in US films such as Peter Farrelly's Dumb and Dumber (1994).
Abstract: This essay explores the colonial nature of the American road movie, specifically through the lens of how road movies treat the South according to Stuart Hall’s concepts of identity and Edward Said’s on Othering and the colonial gaze.
- Andy Wright
- 2016
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A list of 137 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Oh, Sun (1970), The Night (1992), I Am Cuba (1964), Bamako (2006) and Neptune Frost (2021). About this list: films grappling directly with colonialism, neocolonialism, imperialism, etc recommendations welcome -- the first half of the list (up to and including Touki Bouki) i have seen and ...
25. Lost in America (1985) When couples and families in road films embark on a trip, it is often to go on vacation. What makes this film different is the way it questions the idea and myth central to the American Dream. Linda and David Howard decide to leave the comfort of their jobs and buy a Winnebago, see the country, and live with fewer ...
Mar 25, 2017 · Original Post from the Huffington Post. by Josua Ostroff. Colonization is a word – much like, say, privilege – that makes some people tune out. That was a long time ago, they may think. Or maybe, like former Prime Minister Stephen Harper opining at a 2009 G20 summit, they might consider Canada as having "no history of colonialism."
Feb 22, 2018 · For example, empire cinema contributed to specific ways of seeing, making films that legitimated the domination of colonies by the colonial powers. Colonial images of gender, race, and class carried ideological connotations that confirmed imperial epistemologies and racial taxonomies, depicting natives, in documentary or fictional films, as ...
Mar 10, 2022 · Post-colonial films set in contemporary times reorient the approach to residual colonial issues. In these films, the effects of historical events are shown to be still present, but the story is not driven by explicitly post-colonial narratives.
