Resumen del Libro

This collection of essays in English and in Spanish explores the travels of a genre and related issues of artistic, national, and transnational identities. In recent decades road movies have reemerged. This volume is interested in the genre's expansion in the Americas with a particular focus on new and alternative road movies that have come out of Mexico, the United States, and Canada. These essays rediscover "America" through a transnational, inter-American lens. The contributors trace the filmic origins of road movies to the U.S. and Hollywood, but emphasize the importance of revisiting the genre within a North-South perspective and explore how the genre has changed through the cultural flows of globalization.