Brazilian Cinema / Edition 2

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Pat Aufderheide
Assembles some of the best writing on the subject. . . . The issues raised in the essays go beyond the Brazilian case and apply to many other cinemas.
Latin America in Books
A 'must' for anyone interested in Brazilian cinema.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780231102674
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publication date: 11/9/1995
  • Series: Film and Culture Series
  • Edition description: Revised Edition
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 491
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface 9
Acknowledgments 11
Pt. I The Shape of Brazilian Film History 15
Pt. II The Theory of Brazilian Cinema: The Filmmakers Speak 53
1 For a Popular Revolutionary Art 58
2 Cinema Novo 64
3 An Esthetic of Hunger 68
4 Criticism and Self-Criticism 72
5 The Tricontinental Filmmaker: That Is Called the Dawn 76
6 Cannibalism and Self-Cannibalism 81
7 Everybody's Woman 84
8 From the Drought to the Palm Trees 86
9 The Luz e Acao Manifesto 90
10 Toward a Common Market of Portuguese- and Spanish-Speaking Countries 93
11 Popular Cinema and the State: Two Views 98
12 Embrafilme: Present Problems and Future Possibilities 104
13 Jack Valenti's Brazilian Agenda 109
Pt. III Cinema Novo and Beyond: The Films 115
14 The Cinema of Hunger: Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vidas Secas 120
15 Cinema and The Guns 128
16 Black God, White Devil: The Representation of History 134
17 Land in Anguish 149
18 Hunger for Love 162
19 Antonio das Mortes 169
20 Cinema Novo and Cannibalism: Macunaima 178
21 How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman 191
22 Sao Bernardo: Property and the Personality 200
23 Lesson of Love 208
24 Carnivalesque Celebration in Xica da Silva 216
25 Tent of Miracles 225
26 Formal Innovation and Radical Critique in The Fall 234
Pt. IV Special Topics and Polemics 241
27 Cinema: A Trajectory within Underdevelopment 244
28 From High Noon to Jaws: Carnival and Parody in Brazilian Cinema 256
29 Vera Cruz: A Brazilian Hollywood 270
30 Trajectory of an Oscillation 281
31 Alma Brasileira: Music in the Films of Glauber Rocha 290
32 On the Margins: Brazilian Avant-Garde Cinema 306
33 Seeing, Hearing, Filming: Notes on the Brazilian Documentary 328
34 When Women Film 340
35 Hollywood Looks at Brazil: From Carmen Miranda to Moonraker 351
36 The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Cinema, 1960-1990 362
Pt. V The Shape of Brazilian Cinema in the Postmodern Age 387
The Contributors 473
Index 477
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