rhetorical of the american road#week7

Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television.
“Even though these road films dismantle notions of identity as fixed, we have seen that high budget entertainments are likely to focus-up until the nineties- on the protagonists…..Then follows a decade in which minority directors exert their power….to show new ways to recognize race, sexuality, and gender”（Katie 192）. Actually, the road movie in the 90s has wider themes than before, but it still does not the issue of race. The issue of race, class, and gender are related to these images on the screen, but more importantly, how those images are represented, what conditions those images are sitting in, and how power relationships differ between races.
During the 90s, women had greater opportunity to enter the film industry, but the population of minority groups in the film industry is lower than white people. Even though there are some black road films in the early 90s, the road movie seems to lack diverse people. For example, there is no Native American road movie in the 90s. Moreover, the Asian American is always presented as a negative character. Compared to the number of females involved in the evolution of film industry in the 80s, the members of minority groups entering the film industry are relatively few in the 90s.
Romance of the Road: The Literature of the American Highway.
The Author, Primeau, mentions that “the road is freedom from schedules, commitments, memberships, and credentials; the high way journey also suspends for a while definition according to one’s origins, profession, and geography.（Primeau 69）” However, the road is not limited, and the road is not absolutely freed from any society. It offers people multiple options in the relative society, and also gives people multiple perspectives on the road. Primeau thinks journeys can help people discover themselves and build identity. However, I believed that journeys could just help the authors build personal identities, but not influence those of the audiences.
There are many different reasons hailing people to be on the road and most reasons are related escape, experimental structure, and self reflexive parody（Primeau 89）. However, coming home is a very common feature and result of the road story.