'A bible for road movie lovers...written with abosrbing metaphors, inspiring imagery, vivid language and side-saddles of enthusiasm..Lost Highways compels you to hitch a ride to your nearest cinema and demand reruns of everything from Detour to Badlands. - Uncut

'Any book that can put The Wizard of Oz, Apocalpse Now and Butt-Banged Cycle Sluts on a level playing field is onto a winner.' - The Face

'Provides a one-pit stop overview of a vast subject. Superb.' - Total Film

'Lost Highways thoroughly examines the sub-genre of road movies, categorizing and explaining both the literal and symbolic elements. There's twenty chapters here, with essays devoted to westerns, biker movies, and Australian road movies, amongst others, as well as discourses on individual movies such as EASY RIDER and CRASH… the writing is uniformly intelligent and interesting. There's also a pissload of cool pictures and movie ads, and it fits right in with the rest of the top-notch books CREATION has released.' - Fright X

'Finally THE coolest genre of them all is given the attention it truly deserves… This book has it all, everything from 50's hot-rod favourites like HOT CAR GIRL (1958), DRAGSTRIP GIRL (1957), Noir classics like THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948), Biker flicks ANGELS FROM HELL and THE HARD RIDE… Individual chapters focus on such stand-out movies as the seminal EASY RIDER, Monte Hellman's existential TWO-LANE BLACKTOP...and 1971's speed-freak epic VANISHING POINT. 'The Antipodes' chapter covers Australia's (and New Zealand's) unique take on the genre, looking at the MAD MAX series, Peter Weir's THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS and KISS OR KILL (1997) amongst others. Horror tinged movies like ROAD GAMES, THE HITCHER, RACE WITH THE DEVIL and DUEL are appreciated, with a specific section on Vampire road movies like Carpenter's VAMPIRES, Bigelow's NEAR DARK and the manic Rodriguez/Tarantino splatter-fest FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. 'Killer Couples' on the road are also singled out, covering BONNIE AND CLYDE, BADLANDS, THE SADIST, TRUE ROMANCE, KALIFORNIA and of course NATURAL BORN KILLERS… There are even chapters on 'Queens of the Road', 'Travelling Children', Godard's WEEKEND, Cronenberg's CRASH and studies of Wim Wenders and David Lynch. An intelligent insight into fast cars and their speeding drivers.' - Reelscreen

Creation Books are now proud to present Lost Highways: An Illustrated History of Road Movies, an edited collection of highly charged essays by some of the best film writers around, forming the definitive guide to this rarely documented genre.

Through these detailed yet accessible essays, Lost Highways not only provides a complete overview of the genre, but also explores intersections with other genres such as the western, film noir, horror, and even sci-fi, as well as analysing road movies from around the world.

From The Wizard of Oz to Crash, Apocalypse Now to Vanishing Point, Two-Lane Blacktop to Thelma and Louise, The Wild Bunch to the archetypal road movie: Easy Rider, this really is the definitive illustrated guide to a diverse body of film which holds at its nucleus the quintessential cinematic/ cultural interchange of modern times.