How Brazilian films developed multiple national identities, 1930-2000
Subtitle: the cultural achievement of popular cinema
By: Sarah J. McDonald ; with a foreword by Walescka Pino-Ojeda
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780773439467
Subjects: Motion pictures; Culture in motion pictures; Nationalism in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Industry origins; title: Cinema and cannibalism; title: South of the border: locating a cinematic Brazil. Popular film and cinematic subjectivity; title: The chanchada; title: Carnaval atlantida: consumer cinema; title: Re-assessing the chanchadas; title: Girls and samba: the production of a gendered tropicality. Orfeu from the outside; title: The sensuous mulatta; title: Carnival and class; title: Orfeu's homecoming; title: Metamorphosis of the 'mulatta': reconfiguring femininity. Xica da Silva: carnivalesque power and politics; title: Carnal carnival: desire and power in Dona Flor; title: In defence of the domus: the journey of mothering in Central do Brasil; title: Mothers and lovers: the sexualised mother in Eu, tu, eles; title: Favela nation: globalisation and the consumption of violence. City of God: carnivorous carnival; title: Favela wars? tropa de elite and the legitimacy of violent conflict; title: From boys to men: the development of self in Linha de passe; title: Antonia: women on the margins; title: Conclusion.