The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-30 Traveling Across Latin America....Pages 31-61 Nations in Crisis....Pages 63-93 The Patagonian Pull....Pages 95-121 Heading North: Migrants and the US–Mexican Border....Pages 123-153 Internally Displaced People Roaming the Roads....Pages 155-178 Gazing at Tourists....Pages 179-208 Back Matter....Pages 209-245