Thursday, December 13, 2012

Louis Mendoza’s "A Journey Around Our America," the movie

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: A Journey Around Our America by Louis Mendoza.

The entry begins:
A Journey Around Our America is premised on a non-athlete, non-cyclist (me) spending 5 months and 19 days riding around the perimeter of the US through 34 states talking to people about immigration and the Latinoization of the country. Though it revolves centrally around one person’s experience, it’s really a story about the country as a whole through the lens of these two issues. If it were made into a movie, it would need a director who knows people in all their variety and quirkiness—because no one individual is the main character, rather the collectivity as a whole embodies the persona of what it is to be American in these times. Two possibilities would be John Sayles and Jim...[read on]
Learn more about A Journey Around Our America at the University of Texas Press website.

The Page 99 Test: A Journey Around Our America.

My Book, The Movie: A Journey Around Our America.

--Marshal Zeringue