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