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Often identified as one of the most genuine and enduring American film genres, the road movie has never been explored in the context of experimental filmmaking. To fill this gap, Lost Highways, Embodied Travels provides the first book-length study of over eighty unique and often obscure films and videos and situates them within the corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema, so far mostly associated with body genres and sexually explicit films. Drawing on unpublished archival materials, the book offers a fresh take on both past and current practices of the experimental film community for scholars, students, makers and film buffs.

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Author:   Kornelia Boczkowska
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   7
Weight:   0.613kg
ISBN:  

9789004537248

ISBN 10:   9004537244
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   09 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction  1 Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Structure of This Book 1 The Road Movie and the Corporeal Turn in Experimental Film  1 The Road Movie as a Mainstream Film Genre  2 The Road Movie as an Experimental Film Genre  3 The Corporeal Turn in Experimental Film  4 The Road Movie and the Corporeal Turn in Experimental Film 2 Embodied Travels  1 Cars and the Body  2 “I Like to Remember Things My Own Way”: Saul Levine’s Mortgage on My Body  3 Life Shooting and a Road Movie-Therapy-Performance: Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Niagara Falls  4 Intuitive Travels: Gary Adlestein’s S-8 Diary: Wildwood 2/88  5 Unmediated Encounters with the World: Dana Play’s Kongostraat  6 Motorcycles and the Body  7 Fading Memories of a Honeymoon Trip: Brian Patrick’s Honey/Moon  8 “Gotta Get Outta Here”: Charlemagne Palestine’s Island Song  9 Cars and Relationships  10 Intimacy That Never Is: Sophie Calle’s No Sex Last Night  11 Depopulated Highways, Empty Hotel Rooms, and Unfulfilled Intimacy: Donald Winkler’s Travel Log  12 Female Bodies, Automobiles, and a Failed Lesbian Relationship: Su Friedrich’s Rules of the Road  13 Two Female Hitchhikers, an Escapist Driver and a Sexual Awakening: Siouxzi Mernagh’s Exit  14 Break Ups, Reminiscences, and Ghosts of the Past: Walter Ungerer’s Down the Road  15 The Ups and Downs of Female Solitary Travel: Jessica Bardsley’s Goodbye Thelma  16 Romance in the Digital Age: Michael Robinson’s Onward Lossless Follows  17 Conclusion 3 Americana, Canadiana, Native Americans, and Eco-Road Movies  1 Americana  2 A Testimony to Chance Encounters: Chris Mullington’s Americans (Mer-Kins)  3 The End of the American Dream: Chip Lord’s Motorist  4 A Country of Contradictions: Lluis Escartín’s 75 Drive-a-Way  5 A Disturbing Portrait of America: James Benning’s North on Evers  6 In Search of American Counterculture: James Benning’s Easy Rider  7 A Nostalgic Evocation of the Frontier: Bill Brown’s XCTRY  8 Canadiana  9 A Dead-End Trip: Philip Hoffman’s The Road Ended at the Beach  10 Roads Where Nothing Ever Happens: Clive Holden’s Bus North to Thompson with Les at the Wheel  11 The History of Canadian Roads Told … Backwards: Michael Snow’s Seated Figures  12 Native Americans  13 “The Dream of America That Never Came True”: Bruce Baillie’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux and Quixote  14 A Poignant Ode to the Ho-Chunk People and Their Language: Sky Hopinka’s Jáaji Approx.  15 Eco-Road Movies  16 An Ascetic Roughness of Land and Nature: Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson’s Mono Lake  17 A Nervous Pean to the New Zealand landscape: Lissa Mitchell’s Bowl Me Over  18 A “Trans-Corporeal” Experience of Rural Ireland: Julie Murray’s Orchard  19 An Ominous Terror of Ecocide, Or the Doomsday that Never Was: Fern Silva’s Tender Feet  20 Conclusion 4 Lost Highways  1 Interstate Highways  2 The Thrill of the Open Road: Hilary Harris’ Highway  3 The Magic of Road Building: Anna Geyer’s Dozer  4 American Freeway, Private Prisons, and the Dark Side of Automobility: James Schneider’s Median Strip  5 The Crisis of Automobility: Emma Piper-Burket’s Driving Dinosaurs  6 Highway Landscapes and Local Roads  7 A Silent Spectacle of Death: J. J. Murphy’s Highway Landscape  8 Countryside Highways and the Suspension of Movement: James Benning’s Small Roads  9 An Australian Rural Dirt Road in 360: Blake Williams’ Coorow-Latham Road  10 Conclusion 5 Through the Windshield  1 Framed Views  2 The Paradoxes of Movement: Gary Beydler’s Pasadena Freeway Stills  3 Multiple Views of a Seashore Landscape: Ken Kobland’s Frame  4 Across America in Suspended Motion: Ken Kobland’s Landscape and Desire  5 Driving Meditation: Al Wong’s Twin Peaks  6 Windshield Views  7 The Icelandic Highway and the Sensation of Velocity: Þór Friðriksson’s Hringurinn  8 A Roller-Coaster Ride Down the Trans-Canada Highway: Stephen Arthur’s Tran Scan  9 A Full-Body Immersion in the Western Canadian Landscape: Stephen Arthur’s Vision Point  10 Driving on a Rainy Day  11 Driving in a Thunderstorm and Female Mobility: Faith Arazi and Madeleine Mori’s Through a Field  12 A Mesmerizing Movement of Raindrops on the Car Windows: Ann Deborah Levy’s Rain Painting  13 The Wiper’s Swing and an Erratic Ride on a Vancouver City Bus: Chris Gallagher’s Seeing in the Rain  14 Squirming Raindrops and a Bleak View of the Frontier: Bruce and Lorie Baillie’s Commute  15 Car Crashes  16 From Violent Death to Creative Transformation: Robert Nelson’s Hot Leatherette  17 A Crash into the Driver-Car’s Mind: Eric Patrick’s Stark Film  18 A Near Deadly Crash and the Afro-American Experience: Paige Taul’s The Promise  19 The Tourist Gaze  20 A Flashy World of Clichés and Hasty Sight-Seeing: Barbara Hammer’s Tourist  21 The Hustle and Bustle of Being on the Move and Haptic Aurality: Christina Battle’s Traveling thru with Eyes Closed Tight (Map #2–January 03 thru January 06)  22 Conclusion 6 Through the Side Window  1 Fleeting Impressions of Canada: Joyce Wieland’s Reason Over Passion  2 Culture Clash and Embodied Memories of Vietnam: Lynne Sachs’ Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam  3 Scattered Recollections of a Family Vacation: Michael Stickrod’s Vacation Tapes  4 Driving and Landscape Painting  5 Impressionist Views of the Country Barn: Larry Gottheim’s Barn Rushes  6 The Color Field Painting on Interstate 5: Martha Rosler’s Flower Fields  7 Still Lifes of the Swedish Rural Countryside: Gunvor Nelson’s Light Years  8 A Cathartic Road Trip and Impossible Panoramic Vistas of the American Southwest: Peter Rose’s The Geosophist’s Tears  9 Driving in the Desert  10 Seeing with a Filmmaker’s Eyes: Stan Brakhage’s Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde  11 A Spiritual Encounter with the Divine: Jon Behrens’ Desert Abstractions  12 The Uncanny Desert Glare: Cathy Lee Crane’s On the Line  13 An Apocalyptic Mediation on the American Wilderness: Kate McCabe’s You and I Remain  14 “The Intense Reality of Desert” and the Juju Charms: Apostoly Peter Kouroumalis’s Desert Road  15 City Driving  16 Flows, Rhythms and Textures of New York City: Marie Menken’s Go! Go! Go!  17 The Whirling Streets of New York City: Bill Morrison’s City Walk  18 Glimpses into the Streets of San Francisco’s Latino Mission: Martha Rosler’s Secrets from the Street: No Disclosure  19 Inside the Driver-Car’s Mind: Steven Woloshen’s Shimmer Box Drive and Zero Visibility  20 An Exquisite Road Trip Across Four Continents: EXcinema’s The Spaces Between Cities  21 Driving at Night  22 A Vibrant Light Show of Chicago’s Nightlife: Mort and Millie Goldsholl’s Night Driving  23 A Hypnotizing Collage of Seattle’s Nocturnal Lighting: Jon Behrens’ The Movement of Light at Night  24 A Head-On Confrontation with the Speeding Highway: Bill Morrison’s Night Highway  25 A Sinister Night Drive and a Mysterious Owl: Michaela Grill’s Carte Noire  26 Conclusion 7 Inside Cars  1 Mirrors, Windows, and (Movie) Screens  2 A Haunting Ride to a New Orleans Cemetery and Back: Bill Morrison’s Ghost Trip  3 An Eerie Venture into the Cockpit and the Driver’s Mind: Jon Behrens’ The Colors of Boulder in the Summer  4 By the Side Window  5 A Cinematic Gaze, Automotive Visuality, and Blues Improvisation: Larry Gottheim’s Harmonica  6 A Claustrophobic Car Interior … After Dark: Saul Levine’s Driven  7 From the Back Seat  8 An Eventless Drive Around Downtown Manhattan … Over and Over Again: Alfred Leslie and the Frank O’Hara’s The Last Clean Shirt  9 An Aimless Journey across the Country: James Benning’s The United States of America  10 A Perception-Altering Tour of Canada and the United States: Chris Gallagher’s Undivided Attention  11 Backseat Passengering  12 A Bumpy Ride and the Impossible Sublime: Lluis Escartín’s Mohave Cruising  13 Cross-Eyed Viewing of the Bay Bridge: Ken Jacobs’ Berkeley to San Francisco  14 Conclusion Conclusion Filmography References

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Kornelia Boczkowska, Ph.D. (2015), is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. She has received several research grants and is the author of two books and over forty other publications on independent, experimental and avant-doc film.

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