Hit the road, Jack : essays on the culture of the American road / edited by Gordon E. Slethaug, Stacilee Ford.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-309) and index.

Mapping the trope : a historical and cultural journey / Gordon E. Slethaug -- Politics, people moving, and the American myth of the road / Max J. Skidmore -- The road in American vernacular music / Susan Kuyper -- "So that we as a race might have something authentic to travel by" : African-American automobility and Cold-War liberalism / Cotten Seiler -- Witnesses, wanderers, and writers : women on the "beat" road / Eleanor Elson Heginbotham -- Assassin in a three-piece suit : Slow fire, minimalism, and the eighties / Paul Attinello -- Complicating The simple life : reality television and the road / Stacilee Ford -- Postmodern masculinities in recent buddy and solo road films / Gordon E. Slethaug -- Transamerica : queer cinema in the middle of the road / Gina Marchetti -- Fools on the American road : "Gimpel the fool," The Frisco kid, and Forrest Gump / Wendy Zierler -- Generically mobile : the projection of protocol from the road movie to virtual reality and video games / Michael Truscello.