Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Silvino Santos and the Mobile View: Documentary Geographies of Modern Brazil; Paths of Brazilian Road Movies in the 1950s; Bye bye Brasil and the Quest for the Nation; Framing Landscapes: the Return Journey in Suely in the Sky; Road to Riches: Migration and Social Mobility in 2 filhos de Francisco; God is Brazilian: a Re-Examination of Cinema Novo and Self; Leaving Home in Three Films by Walter Salles; Back to the Margins in Search of the Core:Foreign Land's Geography of Exclusion and Sertão as Post-National Landscape: Cinema, aspirinas e urubusWomen on the Road: Sexual Tourism and Beyond; Index
Summary
The innovative collection of essays by a distinguished group of scholars brought together in The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self)Discovery represents the first book-length publication on Brazil's encounters with and reworkings of one of cinema's most enduringly popular genres.
