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Allegories Of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema
Ismail Xavier
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
"A camera in the hand and ideas in the head" was the primary axiom of the young originators of Brazil's Cinema Novo. This movement of the late 1960s and 1970s overcame technical constraints and produced films made on practically non-existent budgets. This work examines a number of these films, arguing that they served to represent a nation undergoing a political and social transformation into modernity. Film maker Glauber Rocha claimed that Cinema Novo was driven by an "aesthetics of hunger". This scarcity of means demanded new cinematic approaches which eventually gave rise to a legitimate and unique Third World cinema. ... Read more
"A camera in the hand and ideas in the head" was the primary axiom of the young originators of Brazil's Cinema Novo. This movement of the late 1960s and 1970s overcame technical constraints and produced films made on practically non-existent budgets. This work examines a number of these films, arguing that they served to represent a nation undergoing a political and social transformation into modernity. Film maker Glauber Rocha claimed that Cinema Novo was driven by an "aesthetics of hunger". This scarcity of means demanded new cinematic approaches which eventually gave rise to a legitimate and unique Third World cinema. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816626779
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V9780816626779
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