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.
Introduction: Reconfiguring Precarious Landscapes: the Road Movie in Latin America Ver?nica Garibotto and Jorge P?rez.- 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 d?as Ignacio S?nchez 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 Am?ricas: Cars, Roads, and Latin American Cinema Gilberto Blasini.- 5 Lonely Souls in S?lo Dios sabe by Carlos Bolado: Pastoralism and Syncretic Spirituality in Times of Crisis Salvador Oropesa.- 6 Tania Hermidas Qu? 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 in Cary Fukunagas 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 NatlSÐ
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