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- Title
On The Way To Language: Wenders' Kings Of The Road.
- Authors
Gemünden, Gerd
- Abstract
The article examines the function of the film genre in "Kings of the Road," by Wim Wenders as one of the New German Cinema's successful attempts to confront Hollywood cinema. It states that the road movie has become the preferred genre of Wenders to negotiate a path between the supporting and confining conventions of genre and to transcend the boundaries to create something new. It illustrates how the American style of the road movie is used to foreground the ambiguous importance of English language. It infers that the film serves as a medium for self-reflection or a site for projection.
- Subjects
FILM genres; MOTION picture plots &; themes; KINGS of the Road (Film); WENDERS, Wim, 1945-; GERMAN films; AMERICAN films; ENGLISH language; FILM criticism; MOTION picture industry
- Publication
Film Criticism, 1991, Vol 15, Issue 2, p13
- ISSN
0163-5069
- Publication type
Article