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Highway to Hell? Images of the American Road in Kelly Reichardt'sOld Joy,Wendy and Lucy, andMeek's Cutoff

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HESTER, DIARMUID 

Abstract

jats:pThis 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:italicOld Joy</jats:italic>(2006),jats:italicWendy and Lucy</jats:italic>(2008), andjats:italicMeek'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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47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies

Journal Title

Journal of American Studies

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Journal ISSN

0021-8758
1469-5154

Volume Title

52

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)