New Brazilian Cinema

Name: New Brazilian Cinema
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ISBN: 9781860649288

ISBN-10: 1860649289

ISBN-13: 9781860649288

Edition: 2003

Authors: Lï¿½cia Nagib, Lucia Nagib

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In a comprehensive critical survey of Brazilian film production since the mid-1990s Lucia Nagib explores what has become known as the 'renaissance of Brazilian cinema'. Besides explaining the recent boom, this book explores the aesthetic tendencies of recent productions and their relationships to earlier works.

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Publication date: 10/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Foreword


Introduction


Acknowledgements



A new policy for Brazilian Cinema




The cinema that Brazil deserves




Brazilian Cinema in the 1990s: the unexpected encounter and the resentful character




Humility, guilt and narcissism turned inside out in Brazil's film revival




Chronically Unfeasible: the political film in a depoliticized world




It's all Brazil




A cinema of conversation - Eduardo Coutinho's Santo Forte and Babilonia 2000




The sertao and the favela in contemporary Brazilian film




The sertao in the Brazilian imaginary at the end of the millennium




Death on the beach - the recycled utopia of Midnight




Nelson Rodrigues in the 1990s: two recent screen adaptations




An oblique gaze: irony and humour in Helvecio Ratton's Love & Co




Cabral and the Indians: filmic representations of Brazil's 500 years




For all and traditions of popular musical comedy




ImagiNation




Then and now: cinema as history in the light of new media and new technologies



Index