The Latin American Road Movie

Herausgegeben:Garibotto, Verónica; Pérez, Jorge

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the geographical, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscape of Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Global Cinema
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-95488-9
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781349954889
• ISBN-10: 1349954888
• Artikelnr.: 52959450

Autorenporträt

Verónica Garibotto is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas, USA. Her book Crisis y reemergencia examines the crisis of the nineteenth century as a discursive formation after the 1990s. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies , Revista Iberoamericana , Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , and Studies in Hispanic Cinemas . Jorge Pérez is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas, USA. He is the author of Cultural Roundabouts , a study of Spanish road movies and novels, and has published articles in ALEC , Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies , España Contemporánea , Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies , Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , and Studies in Hispanic Cinemas .

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reconfiguring Precarious Landscapes: the Road Movie in Latin America Verónica Garibotto and Jorge Pérez.- Section I: Latin American Modernity on the Road and in the Spotlight.- 1 Revisiting Modernity through the Latin American Road Movie Nadia Lie.- 2 Journey to the Ruins of Modernity: Euforia and 40 días Ignacio Sánchez Prado.- 3 The Power of Running on Empty: On the Road in Post-Soviet Cuba Vicky Unruh.- Section II: The Latin American Road Movie: Readings and Genealogies.- 4 Recorriendo las Américas: Cars, Roads, and Latin American Cinema Gilberto Blasini.- 5 Lonely Souls in Sólo Dios sabe by Carlos Bolado: Pastoralism and Syncretic Spirituality in Times of Crisis Salvador Oropesa.- 6 Tania Hermida's Qué tan lejos: Bending Conventions on the Road to Cuenca Carolina Rueda Section III: Heterogeneous Territories: Mapping Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality.- 7 Central American Non-belonging: Reading "El norte" inCary Fukunaga's Sin nombre Yajaira Padilla.- 8 Decolonizing Maya Border Crossings in El Norte and La Jaula de Oro Alicia Estrada.- 9 Configuring Desire and Social Order in the Contemporary Mexican Youth Road Film Olivia Cosentino.- Section IV: Regional Techniques and Local Iconographies.- 10 The Contemporary Documentary Road Movie in Latin America: Issues on Mobility, Displacement, and Autobiography Pablo Piedras.- 11 The Contemporary Brazilian Road Movie: Remapping National Journeys on Screen in Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo Sara Brandellero.- 12 Inscription and Subversion of the Road Movie in Inés de Oliveira Cézar's Cassandra (2012) Cynthia Tompkins.