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 ...