The road story and the rebel : moving through film, fiction, and television /
Katie Mills.
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2006.
- xiii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.
Introduction: what automobility offers cultural studies -- Rewriting prohibitions with narratives of possibility -- Before the road genre: the beats and on the road -- TV gets hip on Route 66 -- Kesey's quixotic acid road film -- Road film rising: Hell's Angels, merry pranksters, and easy -- Riders -- Genre and gender in 1970s new Hollywood -- Back to the family, or, rewinding the postmodern road story -- Rebels with a cause: genre and identity politics -- First-person players: the digital, "transmedia" road story.