ABSTRACT
One of the reasons the hustler can be proposed as an emblematic road movie figure is that, like the nineteenth-century flâneur, every hustler can be seen as living his own daily road movie, whether on the open road or on the streets of the city. But, if the flâneur is a man of pleasure, the hustler is a worker, he is on the job. One must therefore make the crucial distinction between real hustlers and hustlers on the screen.
