Listen "The Road Genre"
Episode Synopsis
Welcome back, it's been a while! This episode traces the evolution of the road genre out of the western and explores America's psychological relationship with the automobile, building from where we left off in August.
This episode did not go entirely as I planned, as along the way I became much more interested in the relationship between cars and fascism as current events have evolved.
Sources:
Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. 1992.
Palmer, Lorrie. "The Road to Lordsburg: Rural Masculinity in Supernatural." In TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural, edited by Stacey Abbot and David Lavery, 77-89.
Agnew, John. Hidden Geopolitics: Governance in a Globalized World. 2023.
The Futurist Manifesto by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco
This episode did not go entirely as I planned, as along the way I became much more interested in the relationship between cars and fascism as current events have evolved.
Sources:
Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. 1992.
Palmer, Lorrie. "The Road to Lordsburg: Rural Masculinity in Supernatural." In TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural, edited by Stacey Abbot and David Lavery, 77-89.
Agnew, John. Hidden Geopolitics: Governance in a Globalized World. 2023.
The Futurist Manifesto by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco
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