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Jul 29, 2016 · The Latin American Road Movie. Gilberto Blasini. Part of the book series: Global Cinema ( (GLOBALCINE)) 635 Accesses. Abstract. This chapter claims that Latin American road movies incorporate elements of comedy, adventure, melodrama, and documentary to portray the region as a pan-national entity.
- Gilberto Blasini
- 2016
Road movies made in Latin America are similar in feel to European road films. [8] Latin American road movies are usually about a cast of characters, rather than a couple or single person, and the films explore the differences between urban and rural regions and between north and south. [8]
Jul 29, 2016 · With a corpus of more than 200 films across the region, Latin American road movies have achieved a high profile in the last two decades at major film festivals, and profitable results at the box office, as exemplified by international blockbusters such as Central do Brasil (Walter Salles, 1998), Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001), and ...
- Verónica Garibotto, Jorge Pérez
- 2016
Jan 1, 2017 · The chapter examines how this space is articulated in three films, corresponding to three narrative models: the exploration (W. Salles, Diarios de motocicleta 2004), the search (F. Solanas, El...
- Nadia Lie
Indeed, the increasing number of Latin American films in the road movie genre is particularly significant in relation to the transnational cultural exchanges and sociopolitical challenges faced by Latin American countries in the past twenty years.
Jul 29, 2016 · This article builds on Vivian Schelling’s classification of processes of modernity to propose that there are types of road movies in Latin America. First, there are “counter-conquest road movies” that ideologically invert the historical route of the...
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Jan 1, 2016 · This chapter claims that Latin American road movies incorporate elements of comedy, adventure, melodrama, and documentary to portray the region as a pan-national entity.
