Defining this new genre (Argod, 2011) means adopting a new point of view with regard to the increase in audiovisual production since 2012, which seems to have gone beyond a quest for authenticity to mediatise extreme travel. The voyage of discovery myth and the attraction of adventure and travel stories explain the popularity of the audiovisual travel diary genre. The film viewer’s tourist trips contrast with the filmmaker diarist’s out-of-the-ordinary or extreme travels. This is a paradoxical dream, however, in this age of satellite and digital technology and mass tourism. 2 All references relating to the films and videos cited in this study are grouped together in the fil (.)ġ The dream of being a traveller rather than a tourist (Urbain, 1991) is nurtured by the myth of travelling to ‘terrae incognitae’.1 The 17th Rendez-vous du Carnet de Voyage, held from 18 to 20 November 2016, was a Europe-wide event (.).The aesthetics of the image, panoramic landscape and grandeur of nature are thought to be a legacy of the notions of ‘picturesqueness’ and the ‘pioneer front’, while the renewed myths of both the wandering hero (Benoliel, 2011) and the quest for a new world seem to have developed from the literary references of On the Road and the Beat Generation’s ‘Beat ethos’.
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We thus extend the road movie genre to robinsonades and films on the experience of a natural environment. The return to the wild, as a cultural confrontation, formative journey and self-transcendence, is said to shape the travel diary genre, which takes the form of either a piece of self writing or an autobiographical film (sometimes called a biopic) on the experience of travelling. These films mark a generation of travel diarists in search of the dream and anti-travel. The reference points for two American travel diary films Into the Wild (2007), written and directed by Sean Penn, and Wild (2014, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, are Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and the American pioneer front. The lived experience of the journey of discovery (adventure, exploration, expedition) defines the travel diary genre, which has become an off-the-beaten-track tourism medium.
The conceptions of ‘wild’, as addressed in fictional travel diary films, question our relationship with space and the form of travel that gives rise to self-transcendence through a confrontation with the environment.
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