Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes

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Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (1916–77) is revered in Brazil as the first ardent defender, promoter and theorist of Brazilian cinema. A film professor, critic and historian, his dedication to cinema shaped a generation of influential film critics in his home country, and set the foundations for the serious study of film in Brazil. For the first time in English, this book brings together a selection of his essays for an English-speaking audience, with detailed explanatory introductions to each section for readers unfamiliar with the context of the writings of Salles Gomes.

By blending together ruminations on global and national cinema, as well as avant-garde film and popular movies, the collection shows how the defence and promotion of a national cinema has been forged through dialogues with international trends, informed by commercial influences, and shaped by global and national political contexts. The book thus introduces readers to the international dimensions of Salles Gomes’s engagements with film, and in doing so reassesses the locatedness of his formulations on national cinema and signals their international dimensions.

Acknowledgements
List of Sources
List of Illustrations
Preface
Foreword
Introductory Essay
Part One: Social and Cinematic Engagements
Part Two: Foreign Dialogues
On Hollywood
On Soviet and European Cinema
Part Three: National Cinema
On Brazilian Cinema
For a National Cinema
Bibliography
Filmography

Sujets

• Video
• Latin America
• Art
• Brazil
• Film

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786833242
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

Extrait

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
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Professor David George (Swansea University)
Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)
Editorial Board
David Frier (University of Leeds)
Lisa Shaw (University of Liverpool)
Gareth Walters (Swansea University)
Rob Stone (University of Birmingham)
David Gies (University of Virginia)
Catherine Davies (University of London)
Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)
Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds)
Jo Labanyi (New York University)
Roger Bartra (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
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Paulo Emílio
Salles Gomes
On Brazil and Global Cinema
Edited by
MAITE CONDE AND STEPHANIE DENNISON
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
2018
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Series Editors’ Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
List of Sourcesxiii
List of Illustrationsxv
Prefacexvii
Forewordxix
Introductory Essay: Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes, Cinema
and Cinephilia xxvii
Part I: Social and Cinematic Engagements 1
Introduction 3
Declaration10
Commentary13
A Time of Pessimism 17
Platform for a New Generation 21
Start of a Conversation 33
A Century of Film 35
Unnecessary Intellect 41
Part II: Foreign Dialogues 45
Introduction 47
On Hollywood 56
The Long Voyage Home56
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Against Fantasia 66
Citizen Kane72
Orson Welles: The Brazilian Adventure 81
Hitchcock’s Mutations 85
Independence and Money 89
Is Chaplin Cinema? 93
Mythology and Truth 100
On Soviet and European Cinema 104
Jean Vigo: Zéro de Conduite 104
Eisenstein’s Thinking108
The Other Side of Jean Renoir 112
The Ideology of Metropolis116
A Religious Adventure121
The Critic André Bazin 126
Battleship Potemkin and October 131
Cinema and Prostitution137
Revolution, Cinema and Love141
Part III: National Cinema 147
Introduction 149
On Brazilian Cinema 158
Mauro and Two Other Great Directors 158
The Good and the Bad in Khouri 165
Compensated Nudity 167
A Healthy Orgy170
On the Banks of Ipiranga 173
The Secret of the Man Critics Never Praised: Mazzaropi 176
The Three Gunslingers 180
Glauber182
For a National Cinema184
Paulo Emílio: A Brazilian Film Critic 184
A Colonial Situation?186
Cinema: A Trajectory within Underdevelopment 192
The Social Expression of Documentary Films in Silent
Brazilian Cinema 208
Exhibitors 214
The Cinematheque and Obstinacy 216
The Latin American Situation 220
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Bibliography224
Filmography 227
Index231
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Over recent decades the traditional ‘languages and literatures’
model in Spanish departments in universities in the United
Kingdom has been superseded by a contextual, interdisciplinary
and ‘area studies’ approach to the study of the culture, history,
society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds –
categories that extend far beyond the confnes of the Iberian Peninsula,
not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and
Lusophone Africa.
In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and
curriculum development, this series is designed to present both
disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general feld
of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that
explore all aspects of Cultural Production (inter alia literature,
flm, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan,
Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series
also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the
Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and
the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the
shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities
in those same regions.
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We are grateful to the following experts on the work of Paulo Emílio
who provided us with advice in the early stages of this project: Carlos
Augusto Calil, Walnice Nogueira Galvão, Randal Johnson, Adilson
Inácio Mendes and Ismail Xavier. We also had the opportunity to
discuss the collection and Paulo Emílio’s work with Randal Johnson
and Kleber Mendonça Filho at a conference organised by the
Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University in February
2017. Many thanks to both Randal and Kleber for their
engagements with the project and also to Wexner for organising the event.
We would like to thank staff at the Cinemateca Brasileira in São
Paulo, particularly Alexandre Miyazato for providing us with
supporting materials for the project. Thanks to Amber Rose
McCartney for her fresh and thoughtful translations of Paulo
Emílio’s work and also to Imogen Folland for her editorial
assistance. We appreciate the ongoing support of our colleagues within
the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of
Cambridge and the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at
the University of Leeds, and we acknowledge our institutions’
support. Many thanks to Paulo Emílio’s family and also to Jordi
Roca and Lúcia Riff for their support and help with this project. In
no particular order, our thanks also go to the following people:
Lúcia Nagib for her enthusiasm and strong support for the volume;
Colin Jones for copy- editing assistance; and Catherine Benamou
for advising on Orson Welles’ It’s All True. Finally, many thanks to
David Filipi of the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State
University for providing us with the initial inspiration for this
project and for his continued support throughout it.
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Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes.indd 1 18/09/2018 10:10List of Sources
The essays included in this collection were originally written for
and published in newspapers and journals as listed below. Most are
published here for the frst time in English and were translated by
Amber Rose McCartney, unless otherwise indicated.
Declaration (Declaração: Clima, July/August 1942)
Commentary (Comentário: Clima, April 1943)
A Time of Pessimism (O tempo do pessimismo: Suplemento literário, 1957)
Platform for a New Generation (Plataforma da nova geração: published as
a manifesto, 1945)
Start of a Conversation (Começo de conversa: Brasil, Urgente, 1963)
A Century of Film (Cinema no século: Jornal do Brasil, 1970)
Unnecessary Intellect (Desnecessidade da inteligência: Suplemento literário,
1957)
The Long Voyage Home (Clima, 1941)
Against Fantasia (Contra Fantasia: Clima, 1941)
Citizen Kane (Citizen Kane: Clima, 1941)
Orson Welles: The Brazilian Adventure (A aventura brasileira: Suplemento
literário, 1957)
Hitchcock’s Mutations (As mutações de Hitchcock: Suplemento literário,
1957)
Independence and Money (Independência e dinheiro:
1958)
Is Chaplin Cinema? (Chaplin é cinema?: Suplemento literário, 1965)
Mythology and Truth (Mitologia e verdade: Suplemento literário, 1958)
Jean Vigo: Zéro de Conduite (Jean Vigo, translated into English from French
by Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes, 1971)
Eisenstein’s Thinking (O pensamento de Eisenstein: Suplemento literário,
1957)
The Other Side of Jean Renoir (A outra face de Jean Renoir: Suplemento
literário, 1958)
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The Ideology of Metropolis (Ideologia de Metrópolis: Suplemento literário,
1959)
A Religious Adventure (Uma aventura religiosa: 1958)
The Critic André Bazin (O crítico André Bazin: Suplemento literário, 1959)
Battleship Potemkin and October (Potemkin e Outubro: Suplemento literário, 1962)
Cinema and Prostitution (Cinema e prostituição: 1961)
Revolution, Cinema and Love (Revolução, cinema e amor: Suplemento
literário, 1961)
Mauro and Two Other Great Directors (Mauro e