Unhinged splintered book 25/12/2023 This would be taken to heart by the burgeoning New Hollywood cinema movement of the late 1960’s. This was followed by a lean period for the road movie, but the 1957 release of Jack Kerouac’s book On the Road would result in the road being seen in a new light, the road was not only a means to end for traversing between set locations but also a site for the celebration and freedom of transience over any need for a destination or stability. By the onset of the 1930’s the movies increasingly took to the modern road, initially in screwball comedy vehicles such as It Happened One Night and Sullivan’s Travels, before a multiplicity of films took the noir template away from the backstreet drinking dens and onto the road in crime thrillers such as Detour, The Devils Thumbs a Ride and Gun Crazy. In the movies, the provenance of the road movie can be seen in the silent films of the migrating travellers and cowboy pioneers of the 1920’s. The spirit of the road has always been deeply embedded within American culture, dating all the way back to the founding fathers and their westward expansion.
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