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Brazilian Cinema and Moviegoing
2020As the world’s fifth most populous nation and by far the largest Portuguese-speaking country, Brazil possesses a massive media market. Despite factors boosting demand for homegrown audiovisual content, the fortunes of the country’s film industry—prized as a means of expressing national identity and as a testament to technological modernity—have ...
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Recent Brazilian Cinema: Allegory/Metacinema/Carnival
Film Quarterly, 1988A new generation of Brazilian film-makers is emerging and films like Suzana Amaral's A Hora da Estrela (Hour of the Star), Sergio Resende's O Homen da Capa Preta (Man in the Black Cape), and Chico Botelho's Cidade Oculta (Hidden City) are attracting large popular audiences. Brazilian films are again winning international prizes ("Best Actress" for Hour
Ismail Xavier, Robert Stamm
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Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema
2016Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in “star studies,” Brazilian film has received comparatively little attention. As this volume demonstrates, however, the richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda.
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The Modern Foundations of Brazilian Cinema
2018The introductory chapter outlines a theory of early cinema in Brazil and its relationship to the country’s invention of modernity. Theories and examinations of early film’s relationship to modernity have by and large focused on the medium’s links to changes and transformations wrought by the advent of industrialization. Noting that such transformations
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