Garibotto / Pérez The Latin American Road Movie

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-58093-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Global Cinema

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garibotto, Verónica

Pérez, Jorge

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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
.