Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Writers, film, and the visual landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Documenting new urban experiences: the cinematic work of the Crônica
  • Comic visions of the new city: writers and film production during the Belle Époque
  • Writers, film, and alternative visions of Rio de Janeiro. Envisioning a new political landscape: writers, anarchism, and film in Martins Fontes's Fantastic screenplay
  • Rio, modernity, and film's visual pleasures: Benjamin Costallat's Mademoiselle cinema
  • Conclusion. Reviving the lettered city: Brazilian modernism and the art of the movies.