Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema : Road Films in a Global Era

would also like to thank my colleagues and students at Birkbeck College and Regent's University with whom I share my enthusiasm for Argentine and Brazilian cultures. My final thanks goes to my family: Pai, Mãe, Camila, vó Carminha, tias, tios e primos. They managed to be close even when they were far. Early versions of some of the texts contained in this book have been published in an edited volume and journals, as follows. The section "The Re-emergence of Brazilian Cinema" and a few lines about Brazilian road movies in the introduction were published in Louis Bayman and Natália Pinazza, eds., World Cinema Directory: Brazil (Bristol: Intellect, 2013). Parts of the analyses of the Lost Embrace and The Hungarian Passport were Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the films and investigates how road movies deal with narratives on nationhood whilst simultaneously inserting themselves in a transnational dialogue. There is a large body of South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. These films, made from the 1990s onwards, take into account the neoliberal post-dictatorship context of the Southern Cone as well as the impact of globalization on Latin American cultures. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the films and investigates how road movies deal with narratives on nationhood whilst simultaneously inserting themselves in a transnational dialogue. Her comparative approach to national cinemas in South America provides insights on the mediation of the economic, sociological, and cultural elements that affect and are reflected in the films produced in the region Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-7 National and Transnational Film Studies : The Argentine and Brazilian Case....Pages 9-27 Home: National Crisis, Fragmented Family, and Death....Pages 29-58 Europe as Destination and Point of Departure....Pages 59-101 Bordercrossing in the Southern Cone....Pages 103-126 The Return to the Sertão and Patagonia....Pages 127-147 Conclusion....Pages 149-161 Back Matter....Pages 163-187