Motorcycle Diaries

<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><p>The Motorcycle Diaries 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 American cinema Latin American history postcolonial studies cultural studies tourism studies and global politics.</p><p>The Open Access version of this book available at www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.</p>