Directory of World Cinema
Title | Directory of World Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Bayman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 9781783202317 |
Best known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters, Brazilian cinema is gaining prominence with critics, at global film festivals, and on DVD shelves. This volume seeks to introduce newcomers to Brazilian cinema and to offer valuable insights to those already well-versed in the topic. Best known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters, Brazilian cinema is gaining prominence with critics, at global film festivals, and on DVD shelves. This volume seeks to introduce newcomers to Brazilian cinema and to offer valuable insights to those already well-versed in the topic. It brings into sharp focus some of the most important movements, genres, and themes from across the eras of Brazilian cinema, from cinema novo to musical chanchada, the road movie to cinema de bordas, avant-garde to pornochanchada. Delving deep beyond the surface of cinema, the volume also addresses key themes such as gender, indigenous and diasporic communities, and Afro-Brazilian identity. Situating Brazilian cinema within the country's changing position in the global capitalist system, the essays consider uneven modernization, class division, dictatorship, liberation struggles, and globalization alongside questions of entertainment and of artistic innovation.
Directory of World Cinema: Brazil
Title | Directory of World Cinema: Brazil PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Bayman |
Publisher | Intellect Books |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2014-02-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1783202300 |
Best known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters, Brazilian cinema is gaining prominence with critics, at global film festivals and on DVD shelves. This volume seeks to introduce newcomers to Brazilian cinema and to offer valuable insights to those already well versed in the topic. It brings into sharp focus some of the most important movements, genres and themes from across the eras of Brazilian cinema, from cinema novo to musical chanchada, the road movie to cinema de bordas, avant-garde to pornochanchada. Delving deep beyond the surface of cinema, the volume also addresses key themes such as gender, indigenous and diasporic communities and Afro-Brazilian identity. Situating Brazilian cinema within the country's changing position in the global capitalist system, the essays consider uneven modernization, class division, dictatorship, liberation struggles and globalization alongside questions of entertainment and artistic innovation.
Directory of World Cinema
Title | Directory of World Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Bayman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 9781783204007 |
Becoming Brazilian
Title | Becoming Brazilian PDF eBook |
Author | Marshall C. Eakin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2017-07-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107175763 |
This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiçagem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.
Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
Title | Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Natalia Pinazza |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2014-10-16 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1137336048 |
Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pinazza performs a careful cultural analysis of the films and investigates how road movies deal with narratives on nationhood whilst simultaneously inserting themselves in a transnational dialogue.
World Film Locations: São Paulo
Title | World Film Locations: São Paulo PDF eBook |
Author | Natalia Pinazza |
Publisher | Intellect Books |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1783201150 |
São Paulo is the largest city in South America and the powerhouse of Brazil’s economy. A multi-racial metropolis with a diverse population of Asian, Arabic and European immigrants as well as migrants from other parts of Brazil, it is a global city with international reach. Films set in São Paulo often replace the postcard images of beautiful tropical beaches and laid-back lifestyles with working environments and the search for better opportunities. Bikinis and flip flops give way to urban subcultures, sport, entertainment and artistic movements. The ability to transcend national boundaries, and its resistance to stereotypical images of an 'exotic' Brazil, make São Paulo a fascinating location in which to explore Brazil’s changing economic and cultural landscapes.
Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
Title | Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Antônio Márcio da Silva |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2017-08-12 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 331948267X |
This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cinema of the new millennium. The chapters take spatiality as a powerful tool that can reveal aesthetic, political, social, and historical meanings of the cinematographic image instead of considering space as just a formal element of a film. From the rich cross-fertilization of different theories and disciplines, this edited collection engages with the connection between space and subjectivity in Brazilian cinema while raising new questions concerning spatiality and subjectivity in cinema and providing new models and tools for film analysis.