Abstract
The car is a popular prop used in the cinema to create film reality. On the screen it functions not only as a physical object, an element of the depicted world, but also as a representation, imagination, myth. The aim of the article is to analyze various ways of using a car (the Dodge Charger, considered an icon of the automotive industry, the most popular American muscle car) as a film prop in a Hollywood cinema, a description of its various functions, meanings and meanings assigned to it – literal and symbolic.
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