Cultural Roundabouts: Spanish Film and Novel on the Road, by Jorge Perez, offers the first comprehensive inquiry about the road genre in Spain. Road narratives have recently received some scholarly attention within the field of Peninsular Studies through a few articles and book chapters, but no book-length study has been published so far. This book investigates how Spanish authors such as Ignacio Martinez de Pison, Ray Loriga, Eugenio Fuentes, and Eugenia Rico, and filmmakers such as Juan Antonio Bardem, Cecilia Bartolome, Fernando Guillen Cuervo, and Mariano Barroso employ the road genre to...