Abstract

SZENDY, Peter. The Archi-Road Movie, or the routing of the senses. Acta poét [online]. 2013, vol.34, n.1, pp.85-106. ISSN 2448-735X.

Each film opens a world (or a cineworld, as Jean-Luc Nancy says). This is why the road, and the road-movie as a genre, are more than mere tropes, more than simple metaphors for the motion picture: they are the sensorimotor schemata of cinema's paving its own pathway. The question of synchronization is therefore reformulated as the routing of the senses, each time in a singular way, and as their collision, where their trajectories cross. The article analyzes the courses taken by the eyes and ears in a number of films, including Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981), Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997), and Deathproof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007).

Keywords : road-movie; visual; auditive; cinema.