What are queer road-trip films and why are they so popular? The essays on this site, which represent the culmination of a semester-long course at Haverford College in Spring 2024 entitled “Queer Road-Trip Films, Ancient and Modern,” aim to interrogate this sub-subgenre from a variety of different angles: gender, filmic aspects, travel. There are a number of films represented here, but we also read Petronius’ Satyrica and Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon from a filmic perspective; hence the “ancient.” But here you’ll find write-ups from Fellini to Akerman to Waters to Haynes and beyond!

  • In Fellini Satyricon, the adventures endured by Encolpio and Ascilto allow them to explore various power dynamics. Throughout Fellini’s film, the bold, surreal, dream-like setting contributes to the sense of aimlessness that viewers feel as they watch the film, in addition to the disjointed storylines throughout. The fact that it had a non-linear storyline, and…

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