Lost Highways: An Illustrated History of Road Movies

Lost highways explores the history of the road movie through a series of detailed essays on key films within the genre. Through these comprehensive and absorbing studies a clear and concise post-modern picture of the road movie emerges, tracing hitherto neglected intersections with other genres such as the western, film noir, horror, and even science fiction.From The Wizard Of Oz to Crash, Apocalypse Now to Vanishing Point, The Wild Bunch to Easy Rider, Lost Highways is the definitive illustrated guide to a diverse body of film which holds at its nucleus the quintessential cinematic/cultural interchange of modern times.