Natalia Pinazza 
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema [PDF ebook] 
Road Films in a Global Era

Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the films and investigates how road movies deal with narratives on nationhood whilst simultaneously inserting themselves in a transnational dialogue.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. National and Transnational Film Studies: The Argentine and Brazilian Case 2. Home: National Crisis, Fragmented Family and Death 3. Europe as Destination and Point of Departure 4. Bordercrossing in the Southern Cone 5. The Return to the Sertão and Patagonia 6. Conclusion

Über den Autor

Natália Pinazza is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.