Saudade in Brazilian Cinema
Subtitle: The History of an Emotion on Film
Publisher: Intellect, Limited
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781783207633
Subjects: Motion pictures, latin america; Motion pictures, production and direction
Description: "The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia, which brings together love and grief, a melancholia and a longing focused on a memory, an absence. Saudade in Brazilian Cinema looks specifically at how this emotion is imagined on the screen. Analyzing over sixty years of Brazilian cinema, Jack A. Draper III uses the idea of saudade to create an analytical framework within the field of emotion studies. Draper places insights on saudade on screen in dialogue with theoretical studies of emotion and affect as well as film theory. The result is a new way of understanding saudade and the representation of emotion in twentieth and twenty-first century Brazilian cinema."--Publisher's description.