The Latin American Road Movie

1. Introduction: Reconfiguring Precarious Landscapes: The Road Movie in Latin America
Verónica Garibotto, Jorge Pérez

Part I. Latin American Modernity on the Road and in the Spotlight

2. Revisiting Modernity Through the Latin American Road Movie
Nadia Lie

3. Journey to the Ruins of Modernity: Euforia and 40 días

Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado

4. The Power of Running on Empty: On the Road in Post-Soviet Cuba
Vicky Unruh

Part II. The Latin American Road Movie: Readings and Genealogies

5.
Recorriendo las Américas: Cars, Roads, and Latin American Cinema
Gilberto Blasini

6. Lonely Souls in Sólo Dios Sabe by Carlos Bolado: Pastoralism and Syncretic Spirituality in Times of Crisis
Salvador Oropesa

7. Tania Hermida’s Qué tan lejos: Bending Conventions on the Road to Cuenca
Carolina Rueda

Part III. Heterogeneous Territories: Mapping Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality

8. Central American Non-belonging: Reading ‘El Norte’ in Cary Fukunaga’s Sin nombre

Yajaira M. Padilla

9. Decolonizing Maya Border Crossings in El Norte and La Jaula de Oro

Alicia Ivonne Estrada

10. Configuring Desire and Social Order in the Contemporary Mexican Youth Road Film
Olivia Cosentino

Part IV. Regional Techniques and Local Iconographies

11. The Contemporary Documentary Road Movie in Latin America: Issues on Mobility, Displacement, and Autobiography
Pablo Piedras

12. The Contemporary Brazilian Road Movie: Remapping National Journeys on Screen in Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo

Sara Brandellero

13. Inscription and Subversion of the Road Movie in Inés de Oliveira Cézar’s Cassandra (2012)
Cynthia Tompkins

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, American Cinema, Latin American Cinema, Latin American Culture, Media Studies, Film History, Regional and Cultural Studies