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This chapter follows several rural families during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The spectator watches them go about their days as they prepare and eat meals, harvest crops, watch World Cup games on television, and play soccer in their own community teams. Frankfurt represents allegorical figures, unique in Paraguayan film, through whom the interwoven discursive threads of rural life, nacionalismo futbolero, religiosity, Paraguay’s location in the neoliberal world market, and the division of Paraguayan classes is explored. Neoliberalism is congruent with an ideological heritage that sees rural poverty and brownness as not only its own problem, but as the country’s burden. Ultimately, Frankfurt provides the viewer with an ambiguous reading of the politically charged campesino figure.
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Romero, E.K. (2016). Frankfurt (2008): Documentary, Fútbol and the Campesino Icon in Paraguay. In: Film and Democracy in Paraguay. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44814-5_3
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