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The Faber Book of New South American Cinema

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Description for The Faber Book of New South American Cinema Paperback. Walter Salles' film "The Motorcycle Diaries" follows the journey made by the medical student Che Guevara across Argentina to Peru. At the climax, Guevara exhorts his audience to see beyond their borders and embrace a continental identity. This vision lives in the work of South American filmmakers. This book features interviews with such people. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 568.

Walter Salles's film The Motorcycle Diaries follows the journey made by the young medical student Che Guevara across Argentina, through Chile, to Peru. At the climax, Guevara exhorts his audience to see beyond their borders and embrace a truly continental identity. This vision lives on today, in the work of a new generation of South American filmmakers.

Following the buena onda, the 'good wave' that included the Brazilian favela film City of God, the 2000s saw a renaissance in the continent's cinema, with such diverse Argentine movies as Nine Queens and The Holy Girl, and dazzling new work ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571231799
SKU
V9780571231799
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Ref
99-22

About Demetrios Matheou
Demetrios Matheou is a London-based journalist and writer. He worked as a newspaper reporter, then an architectural journalist, before starting to watch movies for a living. He is the film critic for the Sunday Herald in Scotland, and also writes for the Independent on Sunday, Guardian, Observer and Sight & Sound. Demetrios contributed the eponymous entry of Faber's Ten Bad ... Read more

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