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Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema and Utopia
Lucia Nagib
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Description for Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema and Utopia
Hardback. By adopting Utopia as a theme, this book unveils, organises and interprets recurrent images, which are a bridge between a cinema concerned with the national project and another informed by global culture. It presents a national cinema that rejects the end of film history, while benefiting from, and contributing to transnational aesthetics. Series: Tauris World Cinema Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Two periods of Brazilian film history are particularly notable for their artistic momentum: the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s and early '70s, and the film revival from the mid 1990s onwards. What makes them especially strong, this book argues, is their utopian impulse. By adopting Utopia as a theme, as well as a method of film analysis, Lucia Nagib unveils, organises and interprets a fascinating wealth of recurrent images, which are a bridge between a cinema strongly concerned with the national project and another informed by global culture. Outstanding recent films, such as "Central Station", "Perfumed Ball", "Hans Staden", ... Read more
Two periods of Brazilian film history are particularly notable for their artistic momentum: the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s and early '70s, and the film revival from the mid 1990s onwards. What makes them especially strong, this book argues, is their utopian impulse. By adopting Utopia as a theme, as well as a method of film analysis, Lucia Nagib unveils, organises and interprets a fascinating wealth of recurrent images, which are a bridge between a cinema strongly concerned with the national project and another informed by global culture. Outstanding recent films, such as "Central Station", "Perfumed Ball", "Hans Staden", ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
Tauris World Cinema Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845114480
SKU
V9781845114480
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About Lucia Nagib
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema and Utopia
'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 ... Read more