Easy-Rider : a mythic geographical road-movie/un mythique road-movie géographique

Easy Rider (Hopper,1968) is considered as the typical road movie, even as a manifesto of this type. The film was directed by  the American actor  Dennis Hooper, who died in May 2010. In late 2008, the Cinemathèque Française presented a wonderful exhibition entitled « Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood ». As  Matthew Orleans, curator of the…