What Road Movie

The road movie originally appeared in the United States, hand in handwith the United States modern industrial civilization was born, andbelongs to the uniquely American cultural products. The road movie hasthe general characteristics of the type of film is a kind of genre. Thefilm most of the content is the road to reflect the life, the road, travel,and all the contradictions and struggles are placed on top of a carrierin the road. This thesis focuses on the type characteristic of a typicalroad movie, to explain the background of the era of the road moviesummarized the film in the road movie symbol, thus combing the contextof the development of China’s road movie analysis plays elements in thecreation and comparison of national road movie characteristics, andfurther extended the study with highway element of the film style andoutlook on the future prospects for the development of the road movie.