Cinema, slavery, and Brazilian nationalism
By: Richard A. Gordon
Edition: First edition, first paperback edition.
Series: Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series; Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780292760974; 9781477309872
Subjects: Motion pictures; Nationalism in motion pictures; Slavery in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Influencing understandings of Brazilianness in O Aleijadinho: Paixão, glória e suplício (2000); title: Modeling national identity on religious identity in Cafundó (2005); title: Multiple, provisional, national identity models in Quilombo (1984); title: Alternative understandings of the national community in Chico Rei (1985); title: Flirting with viewers and precariously rethinking Brazilianness in Xica da Silva (1976).