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1032126140 pdf The first monograph to examine Walter Salles The Motorcycle Diaries, this book explains the significance of Salles film with respect to the specific category of youth culture as a historically and culturally situated concept. The Motorcycle Diaries looks at the films engagement with emerging adulthood, the importance of travel as a source of self-discovery, and the films 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. Read more