FROM BRAZIL TO THE WORLD: THE TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA IN WALTERS SALLES’ ROAD MOVIES.
transnational cinema; globalization; transnational narrative; international coproduction; Walter Salles.
This work aims to advance the research on Transnational Cinema, reflecting on the emergence of the phenomenon, its contours, overlaps and cleavages in the Brazilian context, specifically by analyzing some of Walter Salles' films. To do so, the dissertation draws on the works of Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden (2006); Stephanie Dennison (2013); Deborah Shaw (2013); Mette Hjort (2010) and Hamid Naficy (1996, 1999), who are recognized for their efforts to map and critically address the occurrence of the phenomenon in different countries and cinematographic cultures. Thus, having the interest in confirming the presence of transnational traces in Walter Salles oeuvre, and accounting the analytical tools indicated in the literature, this research analyzes three films by the auteur: Terra Estrangeira / Foreign Land (1995), Central do Brasil / Central Station (1998) ) and Diários de Motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). From the point of view of modes of production, distribution and circulation of these three films, while also considering the cinematic construction of the narratives, the investigation concludes that the works examined share elements that allow one to place them within what the scholarship has been called Transnational Cinema.