Chick Flick Road Kill A Behind the Scenes Odyssey into Movie-Made America

by Rebensdorf, Alicia

• ISBN13: 9781580051941
• ISBN10: 1580051944
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-13
• Publisher: Seal Press

Summary

Having grown up in the 1980s, Alicia Rebensdorf knew better than to compare her own life to those portrayed in the overly romanticized TV shows and movies she'd been raised on. And yet, when she finds herself in her twenties and bored, she can't help but admit to the power those images hold over her expectations of what her life should be. So, she hits the road and takes a behind-the-scenes adventure to the TV and movie landmarks that shaped her youth. From the sets of Twin Peaks, Fargo, The Truman Show, and beyond, Alicia discovers that there's far more to America than its famous facades. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Alicia Rebensdorf has been published in Salon.com, The Los Angeles Times, Bay Area weeklies and Salon's travel anthology, Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance. Alicia graduated with honors from Lewis and Clark College with an emphasis in media studies and has worked as an assistant editor at Trips magazine and Alternet, an online news service where she headed a department entitled MediaCulture.

Based on the first 100 pages of Remote Control Road Kill, in 2003 Alicia was honored with the Mary J. Tanenbaum award, an annual nonfiction award given by The San Francisco Foundation to young writers for works-in-progress. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Leaving Oakland	p. 7
Stand by Me	p. 13
Astoria, Oregon	p. 27
Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure	p. 31
Interstate 90, Washington	p. 51
A River Runs Through It	p. 55
Ten Sleep, Wyoming	p. 79
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	p. 85
Deadwood, South Dakota	p. 98
Fargo	p. 103
Highway 169, Minnesota	p. 120
Purple Rain	p. 125
Along the Mississippi, IOWA	p. 143
Field of Dreams	p. 151
Chicago, Illinois and Eastward	p. 163
Cheers	p. 177
New York, New York	p. 186
Rocky aud Gods and Generals	p. 199
Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia	p. 212
Deliverance	p. 221
Brunswick, Georgia	p. 233
The Truman Show	p. 243
Mobile, Alabama and Westward	p. 255
Thelma and Louise	p. 271
Conclusion: Homebound	p. 285
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