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 mama tambien 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.

En esta obra, escrita por ms de cincuenta colegas y amigos, entre ellos los lorquistas ms destacados y gran parte de los hispanistas belgas, se abordan temas gratos al homenajeado: Federico Garca Lorca y la generacin del '27, la poesa espaola y latinoamericana, la edicin crtica, la retrica&ldots. Este libro de homenaje ofrece un excelente estado de la cuestin de los estudios lorquistas, presenta un testimonio actual del hispanismo belga e ilustra el papel central desempeado por Christian De Paepe en este campo de investigacin.

The first book to be published on the film. In depth examination of how transnationalism has changed the language of political cinema in Latin America. Perfect for students, researchers or interested laypersons

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 mama tambien 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.