(2013), which depicts a father and son on a road trip; Steven Knight's Locke (2013), about a construction executive taking stressful calls on a road trip; and Jafar Panahi's Taxi Tehran (2015), about a cab driver ferrying strange passengers around the city. Timothy Corrigan has called the postmodern road movie a "borderless refuse bin" of "mise en abyme" reflection, reflecting a modern audience that is not able to think of a "naturalized history". Atkinson calls contemporary road movies an "ideogram of human desire and a last-ditch search for self" designed for an audience that was raised watching TV, particularly open-ended serial programs. Movies of this genre Note, that the Country column is the country of origin and/or financing, and does not necessarily represent the country or countries depicted in each film. See also Monomyth References Further reading Atkinson, Michael. "Crossing the frontiers." Sight & Sound vol IV number 1 (Jan 1994); p 14-17 Dargis, Manohla. "Roads to freedom." (history and analysis of road movies ) Sight and Sound July 1991 vol 1 number 3 p. 14 Ireland, Brian. "American Highways: Recurring Images and Themes of the Road Genre." The Journal of American Culture 26:4 (December 2003) p. 474-484 Laderman, David. Driving visions : exploring the road movie. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002. Lang, Robert. "My own private Idaho and the new new queer road movies." New York : Columbia University Press, c2002. Mazierska, Ewa and Rascaroli, Laura. Crossing New Europe. Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie. London, Wallflower, 2006. Morris, Christopher. "The Reflexivity of the Road Film." Film Criticism vol. 28 no. 1 (Fall 2003) p. 24-52 Orgeron, Devin. Road movies : from Muybridge and Méliès to Lynch and Kiarostami. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Lie, Nadia. (2017). The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. This book offers a critical survey of the Latin American road film genre through an analysis covering over 160 films. Luckman, Susan. "Road Movies, National Myths and the Threat of the Road: The Shifting Transformative Space of the Road in Australian Film." International Journal of the Humanities; 2010, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p. 113–125. Mills, Katie. "Road Film Rising: Hells Angels, Merry Pranksters, and Easy Rider." The road story and the rebel : moving through film, fiction, and television. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. This book collects 16 essays on road movies. External links