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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.
Examines the centrality of Cinema Novo to filmmaking in Brazil.
“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 1960s and early 1970s overcame technical constraints and produced films on minimal budgets. In Allegories of Underdevelopment, Ismail Xavier examines a number of these films, arguing that they served to represent a nation undergoing a political and social transformation into modernity.
Its best-known voice, filmmaker Glauber Rocha claimed that Cinema Novo was driven by an “aesthetics of hunger.” This scarcity of means demanded new cinematic approaches ... Read moreFocusing on each filmmaker’s use of narrative allegories for the “conservative modernization” Brazil and other nations underwent in the 1960s and 1970s, Xavier asks questions relating to the connection between film and history. He examines the way Cinema Novo transformed Brazil’s cultural memory and charts the controversial roles that Marginal Cinema and Tropicalism played in this process. Among the films he discusses are Black God, White Devil, Land in Anguish, Red Light Bandit, Macunaíma, Antônio das Mortes, The Angel Is Born, and Killed the Family and Went to the Movies.A compelling chronicle of the history of modern Brazilian cinema, Allegories of Underdevelopment brings to light the work of many filmmakers who are virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. Show LessProduct 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
SKU
V9780816626779
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About Ismail Xavier
Ismail Xavier received his Ph.D. in film studies from New York University. He currently teaches at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
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