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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163985303321

Autore

Lie Nadia

Titolo

The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity / / by Nadia Lie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-45138-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 245 p. 19 illus., 18 illus. in color.)

Collana

New Directions in Latino American Cultures

Disciplina

791.43098

Soggetti

Motion pictures, American

Ethnology—Latin America

Motion pictures

Film genres

Communication

Latin American Cinema and TV

Latin American Culture

Film Theory

Genre

Media and Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

.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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.