Xavier, Ismail.

Allegories of underdevelopment aesthetics and politics in modern Brazilian cinema / [electronic resource] : Ismail Xavier. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1997. - viii, 285 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-278) and index.

pt. 1. The teleology of history -- pt. 2. The crisis of teleology -- pt. 3. Allegory and melancholy -- pt. 4. Allegory and deconstruction -- pt. 5. Further developments.


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Motion pictures--History.--Brazil
Motion pictures--Political aspects--Brazil.


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