The new Brazilian cinema [electronic resource] / edited by Lúcia Nagib.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris in Association with the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford ; New York : In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.Description: xxvi, 296 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/0981 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.B6 N45 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
A new policy for Brazilian cinema / José Álvaro Moisés -- The cinema that Brazil deserves / Carlos Diegues -- Brazilian cinema in the 1990s : the unexpected encounter and the resentful character / Ismail Xavier -- Humility, guilt and narcissism turned inside out in Brazil's film revival / Fernão Pessoa Ramos -- Chronically unfeasible : the political film in a depoliticized world / João Luiz Vieira -- It's all Brazil / Amir Labaki -- A cinema of conversation - Eduardo Coutinho's Santo Forte and Babilônia 2000 / Verónica Ferreira Dias -- The sertão and the favela in contemporary Brazilian film / Ivana Bentes -- The sertão in the Brazilian imaginary at the end of the millennium / Luiz Zanin Oricchio -- Death on the beach - the recycled utopia of Midnight / Lúcia Nagib -- Nelson Rodrigues in the 1990s : two recent screen adaptations / Stephanie Dennison -- An oblique gaze : irony and humour in Helvécio Ratton's Love & Co / Maria Esther Maciel -- Cabral and the Indians : filmic representations of Brazil's 500 years / Robert Stam -- For all and traditions of popular musical comedy / Lisa Shaw -- ImagiNation / José Carlos Avellar -- Then and now : cinema as history in the light of new media and new technologies / Laura Mulvey.
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Based on a conference on contemporary Brazilian cinema organized by the Centre for Brazilian Studies and held at Wadham College, Oxford in June 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A new policy for Brazilian cinema / José Álvaro Moisés -- The cinema that Brazil deserves / Carlos Diegues -- Brazilian cinema in the 1990s : the unexpected encounter and the resentful character / Ismail Xavier -- Humility, guilt and narcissism turned inside out in Brazil's film revival / Fernão Pessoa Ramos -- Chronically unfeasible : the political film in a depoliticized world / João Luiz Vieira -- It's all Brazil / Amir Labaki -- A cinema of conversation - Eduardo Coutinho's Santo Forte and Babilônia 2000 / Verónica Ferreira Dias -- The sertão and the favela in contemporary Brazilian film / Ivana Bentes -- The sertão in the Brazilian imaginary at the end of the millennium / Luiz Zanin Oricchio -- Death on the beach - the recycled utopia of Midnight / Lúcia Nagib -- Nelson Rodrigues in the 1990s : two recent screen adaptations / Stephanie Dennison -- An oblique gaze : irony and humour in Helvécio Ratton's Love & Co / Maria Esther Maciel -- Cabral and the Indians : filmic representations of Brazil's 500 years / Robert Stam -- For all and traditions of popular musical comedy / Lisa Shaw -- ImagiNation / José Carlos Avellar -- Then and now : cinema as history in the light of new media and new technologies / Laura Mulvey.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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