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The Motorcycle Diaries: Youth, Travel and Politics in Latin America

The Motorcycle Diaries: Youth, Travel and Politics in Latin America

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Series: Cinema and Youth Cultures

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1032126140
ISBN13: 9781032126142
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The first monograph to examine Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries, this book explains the significance of Salles' film with respect to the specific category of 'youth culture' as a historically and culturally situated concept.

The Motorcycle Diaries looks at the film's engagement with 'emerging adulthood', the importance of travel as a source of self-discovery, and the film's impact on the iconicity of Che Guevara, the international emblem of a restless, rebellious youth. Combining insights from transnational film studies, tourism studies and affect theory, as well as drawing on extensive historical materials, this book provides not only a necessary addition to existing scholarship on this popular movie, but also an inspiring model for the analysis of film in relation to youth culture - a burgeoning field of interest in Latin American scholarship.

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