The Latin American Road Movie

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Edited by Veronica Garibotto and Jorge Pérez

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Latin America

Keywords

Latin America, road movies

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Global Cinema

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 295 pages
6 x 8 ½ inches (15 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-137-59035-0

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the authors:
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.

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan