How Brazilian films developed multiple national identities, 1930-2000 : the cultural achievement of popular cinema / Sarah J. McDonald ; with a foreword by Walescka Pino-Ojeda.
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How Brazilian films developed multiple national identities, 1930-2000 : the cultural achievement of popular cinema / Sarah J. McDonald ; with a foreword by Walescka Pino-Ojeda.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
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Contents
Introduction. Industry origins -- Cinema and cannibalism -- South of the border: locating a cinematic Brazil. Popular film and cinematic subjectivity -- The chanchada -- Carnaval atlantida: consumer cinema -- Re-assessing the chanchadas -- Girls and samba: the production of a gendered tropicality. Orfeu from the outside -- The sensuous mulatta -- Carnival and class -- Orfeu's homecoming -- Metamorphosis of the 'mulatta': reconfiguring femininity. Xica da Silva: carnivalesque power and politics -- Carnal carnival: desire and power in Dona Flor -- In defence of the domus: the journey of mothering in Central do Brasil -- Mothers and lovers: the sexualised mother in Eu, tu, eles -- Favela nation: globalisation and the consumption of violence. City of God: carnivorous carnival -- Favela wars? tropa de elite and the legitimacy of violent conflict -- From boys to men: the development of self in Linha de passe -- Antonia: women on the margins -- Conclusion.