Research Catalog

Title

São Paulo : perspectives on the city and cultural production / David William Foster.

Author

Foster, David William.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2011.

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Details

Description

vii, 197 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

David Foster brings an intense curiosity and lifelong familiarity to his examination of the cultural tapestry of São Paulo, the largest city in South America and the second largest in Latin America.

Subject

• Brazilian literature > History and criticism
• Literature and society > Brazil > São Paulo
• 15.85 history of America
• 18.38 Portuguese-American literature
• Brazilian literature
• Literature
• Literature and society
• Motion pictures
• Literatur
• Portugiesisch
• Motiv
• São Paulo (Brazil) > In literature
• São Paulo (Brazil) > In motion pictures
• Brazil > São Paulo
• São Paulo (stad)
• São Paulo

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: São Paulo, Brazilian megacity -- Mário de Andrade: on being São Paulo-wise in Paulicéia Desvairada -- The feminization of social space in Patrícia Galvão's Parque industrial -- Appendix: Patrícia Galvão: the private autobiography of a Brazilian feminist writer -- Downtown in São Paulo with Hildegard Rosenthal's camera -- Saudades do Brasil: Claude Levi-Strauss's photographic gaze on the city of São Paulo -- Films by day and films by night in São Paulo -- Madalena Schwartz: a Jewish Brazilian photographer -- Days and nights at the Copan:Regina Rheda's Arca sem Nóe -- Trekking the urban: Eduardo Emílio Fenianos's Expedic̜ões urbenauta; São Paulo, uma aventura radical -- Drawing São Paulo: the graphic fiction of Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780813036656
• 0813036658

LCCN

2010054049

OCLC

• ocn666240008
• 666240008
• SCSB-9725278

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library