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Screen cap from promotional trailer
form y separately published work icon The Road single work   film/TV   science fiction  
Adaptation of The Road Cormac McCarthy , 2006 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 The Road
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

After an unexplained cataclysm kills all plant and animal life, a man and his son travel south, seeking warmer weather, through a population reduced to scavenging and cannibalism.

Exhibitions

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Notes

  • The trailer for this film is available to view via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbLgszfXTAY (Sighted: 1/8/2012)

Affiliation Notes

  • Preppers and Survivalism in the AustLit Database

    This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:

    1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
    2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat

    • A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
    • The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper. 

    3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.

    As a tier two work, this text has been identified as key to prepping in a broader, more conceptual relationship. These texts have been classified as ‘key’ prepper-adjacent texts that are important to prepping, even if they themselves are not about prepping or do not include preppers. These texts have been identified in the database through various means such as interviews with preppers, scholarship on preppers, and online prepper forums.
     

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      2929 Productions ,
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      person or book cover
      Screen cap from promotional trailer
      Extent: 119 min.p.

Works about this Work

Filling the Frame Vicky Roach , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 June 2015; (p. 31)
Lost Boys Luke Davies , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , February no. 53 2010; (p. 54-56)

— Review of The Road Joe Penhall , 2009 single work film/TV
Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 February 2010; (p. 26)
A column canvassing current literary news including comments on the establishment of the Lost Man Booker Prize for novels published in 1970. Wyndham also notes her response to viewing John Hillcoat's The Road.
The Road Is a Cinematic Trip Worth Taking Ron Cerabona , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 February 2010; (p. 11)

— Review of The Road Joe Penhall , 2009 single work film/TV
The Hard Road To Salvation Kevin Maher , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 16 -17 January 2010; (p. 5)

— Review of The Road Joe Penhall , 2009 single work film/TV
This is No Country For the Faint Hearted David Stratton , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 9 September 2009; (p. 16)

— Review of The Road Joe Penhall , 2009 single work film/TV
Film Phil Brown , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 27 January - 2 February no. 768 2010; (p. 23)

— Review of The Road Joe Penhall , 2009 single work film/TV
Apocalypse Now David Stratton , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 January 2010; (p. 16-17)

— Review of The Road Joe Penhall , 2009 single work film/TV
Spotlight 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 January 2010; (p. 22)

— Review of The Road Joe Penhall , 2009 single work film/TV
Tale of Despair a Journey Well Worth Taking Simon Weaving , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 January 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of The Road Joe Penhall , 2009 single work film/TV
Word on the Road is Romulus Star Set for Oscar Nod in Return to Father-Son Theme Stephanie Bunbury , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 5 September 2009; (p. 3)
Last Man Standing: What Cormac McCarthy Made of My Adaptation of The Road Joe Penhall , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 10 January 2010; (p. 21) The Guardian , 4 January 2010; The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 January 2010; (p. 7)
Walking at World's End Stephanie Bunbury , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 15 January 2010; (p. 6) The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 January 2010; (p. 6-7)
The Human Dimension Stephen Applebaum , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16-17 January 2010; (p. 12-13)
Undercover Susan Wyndham , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 February 2010; (p. 26)
A column canvassing current literary news including comments on the establishment of the Lost Man Booker Prize for novels published in 1970. Wyndham also notes her response to viewing John Hillcoat's The Road.
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