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Title:	Market Demands and the Perpetuation of Poverty: City versus Country in Jayro's Bustamante Ixcanul
Publisher:	Universidad de Guadalajara
Description:	In this study, we examine Ixcanul (2015), a debut film by director Jayro Bustamante. Under a framework of Raymond Williams’ landmark study, The Country and the City, we look at how the film portrays a stark contrast between life in the gritty and chaotic Guatemala City and the peaceful and seemingly bucolic coffee plantation where the main characters live, focusing on how the film reveals that the main problems that the indigenous characters experience on that plantation are inextricably tied to the market demands placed on them by the city (and by extension, the consumers from even beyond Guatemala). As the characters navigate between the two worlds (country/city) to deal with their own crises, we see how life on the plantation keeps the Kakchikel character in a state of perpetual oppression.
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12104/88491
Other Identifiers:	http://elojoquepiensa.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/elojoquepiensa/article/view/319 10.32870/elojoquepiensa.v0i20.319
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