
ESSE Bursary
Toward the experimental road movie: Revisions of landscape, travel and cultural critique in selected works of post-war American avant-garde and experimental film
Duration: 2018-05 to 2019-03
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding body: European Society for the Study of English
Funding: 1500 EUR
Image: Viaduct (Jon Behrens, 2020)

Research results
Books
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2023. Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video. Leiden: Brill, pp. 292.
DOI: 10.1163/9789004537989
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Boczkowska, Kornelia. 2019. “The Outlaw Machine, the Monstrous Outsider and Motorcycle Fetishists: Challenging Rebellion, Mobility and Masculinity in Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising and Steven Spielberg’s Duel.” Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 9, 81-99.
DOI: 10.18778/2083-2931.09.05
Conference talks
“The evolution of slow experimental eco-cinema: Deconstructing forest land- and soundscape in Emily Richardson’s Aspect (2004), James Benning’s Nightfall (2012) and nature videos”, 9th Small Cinemas Conference: From the Grassroots to the Global, Boca Raton, FL, November 9-10, 2018

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