Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism

Zusammenfassung Using Brazilian films about slavery as case studies, Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism offers new insight into the deployment of cinematic narrative strategies to influence viewers and their conceptions of Brazilian national identity.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Influencing Understandings of Brazilianness in O Aleijadinho: PaixÃo, glÓria e suplÍcio (2000)
2. Modeling National Identity on Religious Identity in CafundÓ (2005)
3. Multiple, Provisional, National Identity Models in Quilombo (1984)
4. Alternative Understandings of the National Community in Chico Rei (1985)
5. Flirting with Viewers and Precariously Rethinking Brazilianness in Xica da Silva (1976)
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Product details

• Authors: Richard A Gordon, Richard A. Gordon
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781477309872
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-0987-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series; Cognitive Approaches to Litera; University of Texas Press; Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series; Cognitive Approaches to Litera
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous