| The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Lie, Nadia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030104133 ISBN-13: 9783030104139 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $132.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Media Studies - Performing Arts | Film - Genres - General |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.69 lbs) 245 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 mam tambi n 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. |