Consuming visions
Subtitle: cinema, writing, and modernity in Rio de Janeiro
By: Maite Conde
Series: New world studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780813932132; 9780813932149; 9780813932194
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion pictures and literature; Motion pictures in literature; History and criticism; In motion pictures; Modernism (Literature); In literature; Brazilian literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Writers, film, and the visual landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Documenting new urban experiences: the cinematic work of the Crônica; title: Comic visions of the new city: writers and film production during the Belle Époque; title: Writers, film, and alternative visions of Rio de Janeiro. Envisioning a new political landscape: writers, anarchism, and film in Martins Fontes's Fantastic screenplay; title: Rio, modernity, and film's visual pleasures: Benjamin Costallat's Mademoiselle cinema; title: Conclusion. Reviving the lettered city: Brazilian modernism and the art of the movies.