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The Latin American Road Movie

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  • © 2016

Overview

  • Expands upon studies in Latin American Cinema
  • Addresses the proliferation of road movies in Latin American from a comprehensive, regional perspective.
  • Questions gender and sexual asymmetries ingrained in Latin American social structures.

Part of the book series: Global Cinema (GLOBALCINE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Latin American Modernity on the Road and in the Spotlight

  2. Heterogeneous Territories: Mapping Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality

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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Spanish, The University of Kansas , Lawrence, USA

    Verónica Garibotto

  • University of Kansas , Lawrence, USA

    Jorge Pérez

About the editors

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.

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