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Title Lost highways : an illustrated history of road movies / [edited by] Jack Sargeant & Stephanie Watson
Published [London] : Creation, 1999

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Description 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Creation cinema collection ; 15
Contents Introduction / Jack Sargeant, Stephanie Watson -- Western / Stephanie Watson -- "El topo" / Stephen Barber -- Pulp noir on the road / Geraint Bryan -- Biker movies / Jim Morton -- "Easy rider" / Alastair Daniel -- "Two lane blacktop" / Adam Webb -- "Vanishing point" / Jack Sargeant -- Antipodes : Australia / Jonathan Rayner -- Antipodes : New Zealand / Ian Conrich -- Horror on the highway / Jim Morton -- Vampire road movies / Omayra Cruz, Ray Guins -- Killer couples / Jack Sargeant -- "Thelma & Louise" / Alastair Daniel -- Queens of the road / Estella Tincknell -- Travelling children / Kay Dickinson -- Road as river / David Sorfa -- British road movies / Susan Picken -- Wim Wenders and the road / Ian Garwood -- David Lynch and the road / Stuart Mitchell -- "Weekend" / Peter Rojas -- Road in SF film / Karl Phillips -- "Crash" / Mikita Brottman, Christopher Sharrett -- Index of films
Analysis ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, THE (AT, Stephan Elliott, 1994)
AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES (GW, Werner Herzog, 1972)
ALICE IN DEN STADTEN (GW, Wim Wenders, 1973)
APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
BACKROADS (AT, Philip Noyce, 1977)
BADLANDS (US, Terrence Malick, 1973)
BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986)
BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967)
BUTTERFLY KISS (UK, Michael Winterbottom, 1995)
CARS THAT ATE PARIS, THE (AT, Peter Weir, 1974)
CRASH (CN, David Cronenberg, 1996)
DELIVERANCE (US, John Boorman, 1972)
EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969)
EL TOPO (MX, Alexando Jodorowsky, 1971)
F.J. HOLDEN, THE (AT, Michael Thornhill, 1977)
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (US, Robert Rodriquez, 1996)
GALLIVANT (UK, Andrew Kotting, 1996)
GUN CRAZY (US, Joseph H. Lewis, 1949)
HEAVEN'S BURNING (AT, Craig Lahiff, 1997)
HIMMEL UBER BERLIN, DER (GW/FR, Wim Wenders, 1987)
HORROR FILMS
I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (US, Howard Hawks, 1949)
IM LAUF DER ZEIT (GW, Wim Wenders, 1976)
JETEE, LA (FR, Chris Marker, 1963)
JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES (US, John Carpenter, 1998)
KALIFORNIA (US, Dominic Sena, 1993)
KISS OR KILL (AT, Bill Bennett, 1997)
LOST HIGHWAY (US, David Lynch, 1996)
LYNCH, DAVID
MAD MAX [...] (AT, 1979-85)
MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999)
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (US, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943)
MOTORCYCLE FILMS
NATURAL BORN KILLERS (US, Oliver Stone, 1994)
NEAR DARK (US, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (US, Charles Laughton, 1955)
ROAD MOVIES
SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS
THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991)
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (US, Nicholas Ray, 1949)
TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (US, Beeban Kidron, 1995)
TRUE ROMANCE (US, Tony Scott, 1993)
TWO LANE BLACKTOP (US, Monte Hellman, 1971)
VAMPIRE FILMS
VANISHING POINT (UK, Richard C. Sarafian, 1971)
WALKABOUT (UK, Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968)
WESTERNS
WILD AT HEART (US, David Lynch, 1990)
WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
WIZARD OF OZ, THE (US, Victor Fleming, 1939)
Wenders, Wim
Notes Title from cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Motion pictures -- Australia.
Motion pictures -- England.
Motion pictures -- New Zealand.
Motion pictures -- United States.
Road films -- History and criticism.
Road films.
Author Sargeant, Jack.
Watson, Stephanie.
LC no. 00002089
ISBN 1871592682