The Motorcycle Diaries av Nadia (KU Leuven Belgium) Lie

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<P>The first monograph to examine Walter Salles¿ <I>The Motorcycle Diaries</I>, this book explains the significance of Salles¿ film with respect to the specific category of ¿youth culture¿ as a historically and culturally situated concept.</P><I><P>The Motorcycle Diaries</I> 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.</P><P>It will interest any scholar in film studies, specifically transnational cinemas, global cinema, Latin Ameri