Highway to Hell? Images of the American Road in Kelly Reichardt's<i>Old Joy</i>,<i>Wendy and Lucy</i>, and<i>Meek's Cutoff</i>

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Authors
HESTER, DIARMUID
Publication Date
2018-08
Journal Title
Journal of American Studies
ISSN
0021-8758
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Volume
52
Issue
3
Pages
810-827
Language
en
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Article
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HESTER, D. (2018). Highway to Hell? Images of the American Road in Kelly Reichardt's<i>Old Joy</i>,<i>Wendy and Lucy</i>, and<i>Meek's Cutoff</i>. Journal of American Studies, 52 (3), 810-827. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875817000937
Abstract
<jats:p>This article examines representations of the road in the work of independent Florida-born film director Kelly Reichardt. Reading Reichardt's so-called Oregon trilogy,<jats:italic>Old Joy</jats:italic>(2006),<jats:italic>Wendy and Lucy</jats:italic>(2008), and<jats:italic>Meek's Cutoff</jats:italic>(2010), alongside radical anti-freeway and anti-automobile movements from the Pacific Northwest, I argue that Reichardt's films offer critical engagements with the subject of the American road, interrogating the freedom and emancipation from social constraint it purportedly offers.</jats:p>
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875817000937
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286632
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