road movie

English

Noun

road movie (plural road movies)

1. (film) A film in which much of the action takes place during a journey, especially one involving overland travel.
   • 2006, Ewa Mazierska, Laura Rascaroli, Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 161:

     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. As in typical Hollywood films, the road movie tends to define the active impulse (here, to drive) relegating women characters to passive passengers and/or erotic destinations. (2002: 20)

Further reading

• road movie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia