Abstract
As a booming industry worldwide, tourism has started to affect the genre of the road movie. After a general overview of this phenomenon in Latin American cinema, the chapter attempts to chart the genre’s recent relationship with tourism through John Urry’s notion of the “tourist gaze.” Recent examples of Ecuadorian and Chilean cinema are discussed and contextualized. In T. Hermida’s Qué tan lejos (2006), the tourist gaze is criticized or “countered”; in A. Scherson’s Turistas (2006), the gaze is “blurred” and seized upon to construct a late modern notion of identity; and in A. Fuguet’s Musica campesina (2011), the tourist gaze is projected inward and then “reversed” in order to reclaim home. Attention is paid to the emergent character of the cinematic movements of which these films are part.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Barraza, Vania. 2015. From Sanhattan to Nashvegas: The Aesthetics of Detachment in Alberto Fuguet’s Filmmaking. Hispania 98(3)(September): 442–451.
Baud, Michiel, and Annelou Ypeij (ed). 2009. Cultural tourism in Latin America. The Politics of Space and Imagery. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Bauman, Zygmunt. 1996. From Pilgrim to Tourist—or a Short History of Identity. In Questions of Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay, 18–36. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bauman, Zygmunt. 2004. Wasted Lives. Modernity and its Outcasts. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Brad, Jokisch, and Jason Pribilsky. 2002. The Panic to Leave: Economic Crisis and the “New Emigration” from Ecuador. International Migration 40(4): 75–102.
Bull, Bénédicte. 2013. Social Movements and the ‘Pink Tide’ Governments in Latin America: Transformation, Inclusion, Rejection. In Democratization in the Global South. The Importance of Transformative Politics, ed. Kristian Sökke, and Olle Törnquist, 75–99. New York, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Buzard, James. 1993. The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture (1800–1918). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Cavallo, Ascanio, and Gonzalo Maza, eds. 2010. Explicación de este libro. In El Novísimo Cine Chileno, eds. Ascanio Cavallo and Gonazalo Maza, 9–16. Santiago de Chile: Uqbar Editores.
De la Fuente, Anna Marie. 2013. Femme-Made Projects Pace Ecuador Surge. Variety, January 14–17.
Dillon, Michael. 2014. The Birth of New Ecuadorian Film. Cine Ya! (TDL. Journals), 13–22.
Foucault, Michel. 1963. Naissance de la clinique. Une archéologie du regard médical. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Fuguet, Alberto. 2013. Cinépata. Santiago de Chile: Aguilar Chilena de Ediciones S.A.
Germann Molz, Jennie. 2012. Travel Connections. In Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World. London, New York: Routledge.
Gott, Michael. 2015. After the Wall: Touring the European Border Space in Post-1989 French-language Cinema. Transnational Cinemas 6(2): 182–204.
Harvey, Dennis. 2006. How Much Further (Qué tan lejos)? Variety September 18–24.
Hermida, Tania. 2007. Entrevista a Tania Hermida en los cines Verdi Park de Barcelona. September 18, 2007. Accessed December 28, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3uwnZJO08.
———. 2012. Cine en Ecuador presenta a Tania Hermida–cineasta–filmmaker. February 29, 2012. Accessed December 28, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lbZcr_DSjQ.
———. 2015. Foro Nueva Independencia: Tania Hermida. July 8 2015 Accessed December 28, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v6TOGWes3o.
Jackiewicz, Edward L., and Thomas Klak. 2012. Mass and Alternative Tourisms in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Placing Latin America. Contemporary Themes in Geography, 2nd edn, ed. Edward L. Jackiewicz, and Fernando J. Bosco, 97–113. Lanham/New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
Kaplan, Caren. 1996. Questions of Travel. Postmodern Discourses of Displacement. Durham: Duke UP.
Martín Gómez, Jonatán. 2014. Identidades en tránsito: el viaje como síntoma transcultural en el cine y la literatura de Alberto Fuguet. In Espacios de tránsito: procesos culturales entre el Atlántico y el Pacífíco, ed. Montoya Ramírez, María Isabel, and Miguel Angel Sorroche Cuerva, 95–109. Granada: Editorial Universitaria de Granada.
Page, Philippa, and Nadia Lie. 2016. (Re)writing with the Feet: the Flâneur as Urban Cartographer in Alicia Scherson’s Play (2005). Journal for Latin American Cultural Studies 25(4): 533–553.
Ryan, Chris. 1991. Recreational Tourism. London and New York: Routledge.
Santos, Elena. 2007. Que tan lejos [Review]. Guaraguao 11(26): 159–163.
S.n. “Glossary of tourism terms.” UNWTO, February 2014. Accessed January 5, 2016. https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/staticunwto/Statistics/Glossary+of+terms.pdf.
Serrano, Jorge Luis. 2008. Una cierta tendencia del cine ecuatoriano. In Hacer cine. Producción audiovisual en América Latina, ed. Eduardo A. Russo, 169–188. Buenos Aires/Barcelona/México: Paidós.
Torres, Galo Alfredo. 2014. La odisea latinoamericana. Vuelta al continente en ochenta pelÚculas. Cuenca: Los APUS.
UNWTO. 2015. United Nations World Tourism Organization. Tourism highlights 2015. UNWTO Publications. http://www2.unwto.org/publications. Accessed January 5, 2016.
Urrutia, Carolina. 2010. Alicia Scherson. Cine en construcción. In El Novísimo Cine Chileno, ed. Ascanio Cavallo and Gonzalo Maza, 49–58. Santiago de Chile: Uqbar.
Urry, John. 2007. Mobilities. Cambridge: Polity.
———. 2009. The Tourist Gaze. Second Edition. Los Angeles: London: Sage.
Urry, John, and Jonas Larsen. 2011. The Tourist Gaze 3.0. Los Angeles-London: Sage.
Verstraete, Ginette. 2010. Tracking Europe. Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
Vilches, Juan Pablo. 2010. Alberto Fuguet. Lost in Translation. In El Novísimo Cine Chileno, ed. Ascanio Cavallo and Gonzalo Maza, 59–71. Santiago de Chile: Uqbar.
Williams, Claire. 2007. Los diarios de motocicleta as Pan-American Travelogue. In Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking the Global Market, ed. Deborah Shaw, 11–27. Plymouth/Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Wright, Sarah. 2013. Everything to play for: renegotiating Chilean identity in Alicia Scherson’s Play (2005). In Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers: Theory, practice and difference, ed. Parvati Nair, and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla, 229–240. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Lie, N. (2017). Gazing at Tourists. In: The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity. New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45138-1_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45138-1_7
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-43553-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-45138-1
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)