Allegories Of Underdevelopment : Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema

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Focusing on a variety of filmmaker's use of narrative allegories for the "conservative modernization" Brazil and other nations underwent in the 1960s and 1970s, Ismail Xavier examines the way Cinema Novo transformed Brazil's cultural memory. Includes discussions of Black God, Whi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xavier, Ismail
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Political aspects.
Motion pictures.
Cinema > Bresil > Histoire.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > Brazil.
Motion pictures > Brazil > History.
Brazil.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Focusing on a variety of filmmaker's use of narrative allegories for the "conservative modernization" Brazil and other nations underwent in the 1960s and 1970s, Ismail Xavier examines the way Cinema Novo transformed Brazil's cultural memory. Includes discussions of Black God, White Devil, Land in Anguish, Red Light Bandit, Macunama, Antnio das Mortes, The Angel Is Born, and Killed the Family and Went to the Movies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9780816686827

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