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Los extraños del Camino Inca = Strangers of the Inca Trail / a film by Jamie Schreiber.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism--Peru.
- Tourism.
- Travel--Peru.
- Travel.
- Hiking--Peru.
- Hiking.
- Qhapaq Ñan.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Ethnographic films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (31 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : University of Southern California, 2010.
- Language Note:
- In English with Spanish subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- A film about transcultural communitas, global tourism, and the nature of "documentary" filmmaking, Los Extraños del Camino Inca uses documentary footage shot on the Inca Trail in the Andes of Peru. It is a post-modern narrative about transcultural communitas and global tourism. The film follows a group of trekkers from all over the world, strangers who become a fleeting community during a four day trek through the rugged, high altitude, majestic terrain. Sometimes, it takes extraordinary circumstances to measure the practices of everyday life; while the film represents simultaneously the individual and the group experience, the experimental structure argues, flippantly at times, that narrative is the methodology by which communitas takes place, a theoretical argument that can be transposed from the Inca Trail to one's own backyard. The film becomes a meta-narrative: a narrative about narrative. In order to draw attention to the constructed nature of film, Los Extraños del Camino Inca is treated as a text, literally, employing familiar textual artifacts such as font, chapter/vignette headings and even textual symbols such as parentheses and footnote asterisks. By visually representing such blatantly textual icons, the filmmaker engages openly in dialogue within the triangular relationship that exists between her, her film, and her audience. The innovative structure presupposes an audience's referential knowledge, in a tongue-in-cheek manner, treating film as text and dispensing with documentary's claim to "truth." Opening up the narrative structure for artistic interpretation and expression captures the dynamic nature of discourse in film.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed April 18, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 1035405248
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