The Motorcycle Diaries: Youth, Travel and Politics in Latin America

This book examines the significance of Walter Salles' film The Motorcycle Diaries in the category of 'youth culture' by exploring its engagement with emerging adulthood, travel, and the iconicity of Che Guevara. It combines insights from transnational film studies, tourism studies, and affect theory and offers a valuable addition to existing scholarship on the movie.

Format: Hardback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 09 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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 American cinema, Latin American history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, tourism studies and global politics.

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.

Weight: 254g
Dimension: 145 x 222 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032126135