rhetorical of the american road#week8

The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television.
“….the road story in the 1990s introduces audiences to new concepts of community, shaking up social views of gender, sexuality, and race, bringing us back, at the start of the new millennium, to the road as a space of rebellion”（Katie 187）. The road story is formulated by the contemporary thoughts of society, and there is no clear boundary of the road movie. According to Katie, the definition of road movie becomes a process of journey, not just riding a motorbike or driving a car. Therefore, the journeys in postmodern era have become more diverse than before.
Katie always thinks that the females joined to write the road movie resulting in women having their autonomy and mobility. She, unfortunately, forgot those stories were reproduced by the mainstream, but not women’s concepts. Katie defines the increase of women’s representation and female’s authors are successes of the minority groups, but she forgot those women couldn’t represent different races, ages, and groups. Her mistake is that Baudrillard pointed out that “American themselves can’t [write about the American dream]. They’re confused”. Katie always applies white female success experience to all diverse groups; however, the successes could just be a false image which is reproduced from white males.
Driving Vision: Exploring the Road Movie.
“In the postmodern road movie, visionary rebellion and existential roaming become saturated with a ludic irony and tongue-in –cheek posturing…. By blurring all borders under the banner of Artifice, the postmodern road movie tends to nullify transgression, rebellion, and cultural critique (David 135).” The road movie is a dynamic genre, and has potential context to enrich itself. David thinks that the road movie has a broader meaning. It is not a genre about the road, car, and the car culture, but a journey. Therefore, there are many different models occurring in the 90s, making it difficult to define the road movie. David also mentions the road movie was affected by MTV and other media. Therefore, we can clearly observe the boundary of the road movie is getting blurred.