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 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.
It will interest any scholar in film studies, specifically transnational cinemas, global cinema, Latin Ameri
