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A Bibliography of Road Materials


Criticism

- Banham, Reyner. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Rev. ed. London: Penguin, 1990.
- Belasco, James. Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1979.
- Bottles, Scott L. Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City. Berkeley: U of California P, 1987.
- Codrescu, Andrei. Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century. New York: Hyperion, 1993.
- Davies, Richard O. The Age of Asphalt: The Automobile, the Freeway, and the Condition of Metropolitan America. New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1975.
- Davis, Mike. City of Quartz. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.
- Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York: Basic Books, 1987.
- Flink, James J. The Automobile Age. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
- Fogelson, Robert M. The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930. Rev. ed. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993.
- Foster, Mark S. From Streetcar to Superhighway: American City Planners and Urban Transportation, 1900-1940. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1981.
- Goddard, Stephen B. Getting There: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
- Heimann, Jim. Car Hops and Curb Services: A History of American Drive-In Restaurants, 1920-1960. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996.
- Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage, 1961.
- Kay, Jane Holtz. Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back. New York: Crown, 1997.
- Leavitt, Helen. Superhighway—Superhoax. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970.
- Lewis, David L., and Laurence Goldstein, eds. The Automobile and American Culture. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1991.
- Lewis, Tom. Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life. New York: Viking-Penguin, 1998.
- Ling, Peter J. American and the automobile: technology, reform and social change. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1990.
- McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: the Automobile and the American City. New York: Columbia UP, 1994.
- Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy A. Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993.
- Mumford, Lewis. The Highway and the City. New York: Mentor Books, 1963.
- Nader, Ralph. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. New York: Grossman, 1965.
- Preston, Howard Lawrence. Dirt Roads to Dixie: Accessibility and Modernization in the South, 1885-1935. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1991.
- Rae, John B. The Road and Car in American Life. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971.
- Scharff, Virginia. Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. New York: Free Press, 1991.
- Schlereth, Thomas J. Reading the Road: U.S. 40 and the American Landscape. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1997.
- Seely, Bruce E. Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1987.
- Sorkin, Michael, ed. Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and End of Public Space. New York: Hill & Wang, 1992.
- Stilgoe, John. Borderland, Origins of the American Suburb. New Haven: Yale UP, 1988.
- Tuttle, Cameron. The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.
- Twentieth-Century Engineering. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964.
- Wachs, Martin and Margaret Crawford, eds. The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment, and Daily Urban Life. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1992.
- Wright, Charles L. Fast Wheels: Slow Traffic. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1992.


Literature

- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale (1851)
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1892)
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902)
- Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography (1937)
- John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Travels with Charley in Search of America (1963)
- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
- Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)
- James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man (1965)
- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1965)
- Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays (1970)
- Larry McMurtry, All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers (1972)
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972)
- J. G. Ballard, Crash (1973) and Concrete Island (1974)
- Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
- Stephen King, Christine (1983)
- Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985)
- Katherine Dunn, Truck and Geek Love (1989)
- Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (1990)
- Paul Auster, The Music of Chance (1990)
- Mary Cahill, Carpool (1991)
- Kurt Brown (ed.), Drive, They Said: Poems About Americans and Their Cars (1994)
- Jean Lindamood (ed.), Road Trips, Head Trips, and Other Car-Crazed Writings (1996)


Movies

- Grapes of Wrath (1940, 129 min, John Ford)
- The African Queen (1951, 106 min, John Huston)
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955, 111 min, Nicholas Ray)
- North by Northwest (1959, 136 min, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Psycho (1960, 109 min, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967, 111 min, Arthur Penn)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, 139 min, Stanley Kubrick)
- Easy Rider (1969, 94 min, Dennis Hopper)
- Goin’ Down the Road (1970, Donald Shebib)
- Five Easy Pieces (1970, 98 min, Bob Rafelson)
- Zabriskie Point (1970, 110 min, Michelangelo Antonioni)
- The French Connection (1971, 104 min, William Friedkin)
- Badlands (1973, 95 min, Terrence Malick)
- Paper Moon (1973, 103 min, Peter Bogdanovich)
- Star Wars (1977, 121 min, George Lucas)
- Apocalypse Now (1979, 150 min, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Airplane (1980, 86 min, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, 115 min, Steven Spielberg)
- The Road Warrior (1982, 94 min, George Miller)
- Blade Runner (1982, 114 min, Ridley Scott)
- Paris, Texas (1984, 150 min, Wim Wenders)
- Stranger Than Paradise (1984, 90 min, Jim Jarmusch)
- Lost in America (1985, 91 min, Albert Brooks)
- Down By Law (1986, 107 min, Jim Jarmusch)
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987, 93 min, John Hughes)
- Rain Man (1988, 140 min, Barry Levinson)
- Midnight Run (1988, 122 min, Martin Briest)
- Mystery Train (1989, 113 min, Jim Jarmusch)
- Wild at Heart (1990, 90 min, David Lynch)
- Slacker (1990, 95 min, Richard Linklater)
- My Own Private Idaho (1991, 105 min, Gus Van Sant)
- Thelma & Louise (1991, 120 min, Ridley Scott)
- Night on Earth (1991, 125 min, Jim Jarmusch)
- Highway 61 (1992, 99 min, Bruce McDonald)
- The Living End (1992, 84 min, Gregg Araki)
- Kalifornia (1993, 110 min, Dominic Sena)
- The Fugitive (1993, 127 min, Andrew Davis)
- Speed (1994, 120 min, Jan De Bont)
- Kids (1995, 90 min, Larry Clark)
- Crash (1996, 100 min, David Cronenberg)
- Lost Highway (1997, 135 min, David Lynch)
- Gummo (1997, 95 min, Harmony Korine)
- Ronin (1998, John Frankenheimer)
- Hands on a Hardbody (1998, S. R. Bindler)
- The Blair Witch Project (1999, 75 min, Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick)
- Eureka (2000, Shinji Aoyama)
- Nurse Betty (2000, Neil LaBute)
- Joy Ride (2001, 97 min, John Dahl)
- Y Tu Mama También (2002, Alfonso Cuaron)
- About Schmidt (2002, Alexander Payne)