Brazil on Screen by Lucia Nagib
What connects films of a particular nation, in a particular time? What makes them especially interesting and revealing? This book offers an original answer to these central questions for world cinema, focusing on the case of Brazil and the return of the utopian gesture into its cinema. In this extensively illustrated book, Lucia Nagib argues that the foundational utopian imaginary that has permeated culture in Brazil since the time of the first discoverers has had a decisive influence on its film aesthetics, especially at creative peaks, such as the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s and early '70s, and the cinematic revival from the mid 1990s onwards. She shows how utopian motifs like images of the sea or the classical Greek myth of Orpheus establish a bridge between these two periods, guaranteeing thereby historical continuity from a cinema concerned with the national project to another engaged in a globalised dialogue. In focus are classics of Cinema Novo, such as 'Black God, White Devil', 'Land in Anguish' and 'How Tasty was my Little Frenchman', alongside representatives of a more recent transnational aesthetics, including the anti-utopian 'City of God'and the urban dystopia of 'The Trespasser'.
'Brazil on Screen' takes on the challenge of presenting in an organised and elucidating manner, in clear prose that shifts effortlessly between multiple approaches to very different films, central aspects of the rich and complex material that contemporary Brazilian cinema attempts to shape' From the Preface by Davi Arrigucci Jr 'Written by a brilliant film reader, Nagib's essays... make it obligatory to watch all those films again with renewed attention to the details she unveils.' Sergio Rizzo, 'Folha de S. Paulo' 'From now on every study of the Brazilian cinema will need to take into consideration Lucia Nagib's book.' Alcino Leite Neto, 'Tropico'
Lucia Nagib is Centenary Professor of World Cinema and Director of the Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds. Her books include 'Werner Herzog - Film as Realit'y, 'Born of the Ashes: The Auteur and the Individual in Oshima's Films', 'Around the Japanese Nouvelle Vague' and (as editor) 'The New Brazilian Cinema' (I.B. Tauris, 2004). She is Series Editor of 'Tauris World Cinema Series'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845113285 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845113284 |
| Title | Brazil on Screen |
| Author | Lucia Nagib |
| Series | Tauris World Cinema Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2007-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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