road movie

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road movie

noun road movies

A film in which much of the action takes place during a journey, especially one involving overland travel. For Timothy Corrigan, the road movie is ‘traditionally focused, almost exclusively, on men and the absence of women’ (1991: 143). David Laderman elucidates: Most road movies … retain a traditional sexist hierarchy that privileges the white heterosexual male, in terms of narrative and point of view.

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@misc{road_movie_2026,
  title = {road movie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/road%20movie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}