The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-030-10413-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 341 g

Reihe: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mamá también are only the best-known examples. It offers the first systematic survey of the genre and explains why the road movie is key to contemporary Latin American cinema and society. Proposing the new category of “counter-road movie,” and paying special attention to the genre’s intricate relationship to modernity, Nadia Lie charts the variety of the road movie through films by both renowned and emerging filmmakers. The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity engages with ongoing debates on transnationalism and takes the reader along a wide range of topics, from exile to undocumented migration, from tourism to internally displaced people.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lie, Nadia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.Introduction.- 1. Traveling Across the Continent.- 2. Nations in Crisis.- 3. The Patagonian Pull.- 4: Heading North: Undocumented Migrants on the US-Mexican Border.- 5. Homeless People Roaming the Roads.- 6. Tourism.

Über Autor(innen)

Nadia Lie is Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at KU Leuven, Belgium.