road movies

Noun

road movie (plural road movies)

1. 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....2006, Ewa Mazierska, Laura Rascaroli, Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 161