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.

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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

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