[Frameworks] just to clarify and new question about travel trailers...

[Robert Harris]

Regarding books and cars, since there has been some rhapsodizing around Cronenberg's Crash,
the novel by Ballard should be read.
It's brilliant, horrifically beautiful, and, (like Naked Lunch) a book that resists containment within the fundamentally literal strictures of narrative feature cinema.




On Dec 15, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote:

> Hi all, just to clarify - I was kidding when I suggested that I needed more film titles related to the representation of the auto in cinema... your ongoing list if fantastic and quite inspiring - thanks everyone... I was serious about suggestions for readings though...
> 
> Also, second question - and this is related to the auto question but slightly different - I am putting together a lecture (not a course) about the representation of travel trailers in cinema - Here, I am thinking specifically of the moral panic of mobility as expressed explicitly by the FBI around the popularity of motor courts and trailer parks (one of you described moral panic in my last "auto question" as related to "mobile bedrooms"  - thanks for that).
> 
> Some films/TV shows that I currently have include - well - the obvious Lucille Ball vehicle The Long, Long Trailer, the first TV episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (where a couple living in a trailer park is driven to murder), and an educational film titled We Live In A Trailer.
> 
> Any memorable scenes from films or films themselves that deal with mobile homes and/or travel trailers?
> 
> Know that I have some great texts on the subject including:
> The Making of American Resorts
> On Hobos and Homelessness
> Gypsying After 40
> Galloping Bungalows
> Wheel Estate
> Americans on the Road
> Travels With Charlie 
> 
> OK, thanks EVERYONE for your last input about autos... let's see what happens with this inquiry!
> best,
> bk 
> Bryan Konefsky
> director, Experiments in Cinema
> presidente, Basement Films
> lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM
> visiting lecturer, UCSC
> board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival
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