[Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

[Chuck Kleinhans]

The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road movies in Hollywood.

There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment) which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute.

Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively inexpensive autos created a certain moral panic around cars as mobile bedrooms for young people who could escape being chaperoned.

Chuck Kleinhans






On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote:

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> Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema.  To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored.
> 
> Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish.
> 
> OK, let's hear what ya got!
> best,