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Road films (Genre/Form Term)

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Moving image genre/form guide via WWW, July 19, 2007: (road: Fictional work in which travel or a journey, often of a picaresque or outlaw nature, and sought as a way to find freedom or escape, forms the central narrative structure. Note: Do not include films in which a journey is simply one of the plot elements, as in many Westerns)

Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993 (Road movie; "the open road is the environment in which the central action takes place")

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for films that are set on the open road.

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