Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Nelson Pereira dos Santos is the first book in English to provide a full critical discussion of the films of Latin America’s most important living director. A leader of the Cinema Novo movement, dos Santos is responsible for some of Brazil’s most socially important and artistically engaging movies. 

Through a discussion of his films, Darlene J. Sadlier chronicles the filmmaker's epic career—his leftist—committed cinema, his concern with the national and the popular, his chameleon style, and his links to canonical Brazilian literature. She charts his moves from neo—realism to Godardian experimentation to a kind of popular realism and includes two highly informative interviews that reveal dos Santos’s cultural, intellectual, and philosophical formation.

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Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Nelson Pereira dos Santos is the first book in English to provide a full critical discussion of the films of Latin America’s most important living director. A leader of the Cinema Novo movement, dos Santos is responsible for some of Brazil’s most socially important and artistically engaging movies. 

Through a discussion of his films, Darlene J. Sadlier chronicles the filmmaker's epic career—his leftist—committed cinema, his concern with the national and the popular, his chameleon style, and his links to canonical Brazilian literature. She charts his moves from neo—realism to Godardian experimentation to a kind of popular realism and includes two highly informative interviews that reveal dos Santos’s cultural, intellectual, and philosophical formation.

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Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

by Darlene J. Sadlier
Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

by Darlene J. Sadlier

Overview

Nelson Pereira dos Santos is the first book in English to provide a full critical discussion of the films of Latin America’s most important living director. A leader of the Cinema Novo movement, dos Santos is responsible for some of Brazil’s most socially important and artistically engaging movies. 

Through a discussion of his films, Darlene J. Sadlier chronicles the filmmaker's epic career—his leftist—committed cinema, his concern with the national and the popular, his chameleon style, and his links to canonical Brazilian literature. She charts his moves from neo—realism to Godardian experimentation to a kind of popular realism and includes two highly informative interviews that reveal dos Santos’s cultural, intellectual, and philosophical formation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780252071126
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 03/12/2003
Series: Contemporary Film Directors
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Darlene J. Sadlier is a professor emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University and the author of Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgmentsxi
A Cinema of the People1
The Apprenticeship Years: Sao Paulo, Paris, Rio
Toward a Socially Committed Cinema: Rio, 40 graus
Rio, Zona Norte, Mandacaru Vermelho, Boca de Ouro, and the Beginning of the Cinema Novo Movement
Vidas secas
From Comedy to Allegory: El justicero, Fome de amor, and Azyllo muito louco
Culture and Cannibalism: Como era gostoso o men frances
An Experiment in Science Fiction: Quem e Beta?
For a Popular Cinema: O amuleto de Ogum, Tenda dos milagres, and Estrada da vida
A Return to Adaptation: Memorias do carcere, Jubiaba, and A terceira margem do rio
Melodrama and Cinema Novo: Cinema de lagrimas
An Interview with Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1995)122
An Interview with Nelson Pereira dos Santos (2001)145
Filmography153
Bibliography165
Index169
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