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Foundational Films : Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil /

"In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema. Focusing on silent film released during the First Republic (1889-1930), Foundational films explores how the medium became implicated in a larger project to transform Brazil into a mode...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Conde, Maite, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the modern foundations of Brazilian cinema
  • Locating the belle epoque of Brazilian cinema. Early cinema and national identity : mapping out a space of analysis
  • Cinematic vistas of Rio de Janeiro's worldly modernity
  • Alternative urban projections in early narrative films
  • Hollywood revisions. Film and fandom in Cinearte Magazine
  • Beyond Hollywood : reading slave relations in Humberto Mauro's Lost Treasure (1927)
  • The Rondon Commission : producing new visions of the Amazon. Picturing the tropics: forging a national territory through photography and film
  • The expedition films of Major Luiz Thomas Reis
  • Modernism and the movies. Modernismo's literary engagements with film
  • The cine-poetry of Mário Peixoto's Limite
  • Fabricating discipline and progress in São Paulo, symphony of a metropolis
  • Postscript: towards new cinematic foundations.