%0 Journal Article
%T Transatlantic Refractions: Ambivalence and Cultural Hybridity in the Euro-American Road Movie
%A Jeffrey L. Meikle
%J European Journal of American Studies
%D 2010
%I European Association for American Studies
%R 10.4000/ejas.8806
%X This article analyses a variety of ways in which the ˇ°road movieˇ± has been reinterpreted by modern European directors (German Wim Wenders, Finn Aki Kaurism ki) or American director Jim Jarmusch with his pronounced European sensibilities. Despite the ubiquity of American popular culture in many of these movies, the films themselves are far from representing a simple ˇ°colonizationˇ± on the part of American culture. The ambivalent view of the United States adopted by these men has helped transform a typically ˇ°Americanˇ± genre into a new demonstration of transatlantic cultural hybridity.
%K popular culture
%K borders
%K counterculture
%K cultural hybridity
%K globalization
%K landscape
%K road movie
%U http://ejas.revues.org/8806