Remaking Brazil

Tatiana Heise

Description

This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity. Focusing on the idea of the nation as an 'imagined community', the author discuss the various ways in which dominant ideas about brasilidade (Brazilian national consciousness) are dramatised, supported or attacked in contemporary fiction and documentary films.
PART 1: The Making of Brazilian National Identity Chapter 1: Forging the Nation Chapter 2: Modernity, Exclusion and Inclusion Chapter 3: The Authoritarian State and Nation Building Chapter 4: Resisting the Dominant Ideology PART 2: Projected Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema Chapter 5: Celebration: The Brazilian Way of Being Chapter 6: Reform: The Land of Samba, Football and Inequality Chapter 7: Resistance: Asserting Alternative Identities Chapter 8: Opposition: Visions of Disorder

Sujets

• Video
• Latin America
• Art
• Brazil
• Film

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juillet 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708325162
• Langue: English

Extrait

Iberian and Latin American Studies

Remaking Brazil

Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

Tatiana Signorelli Heise

University of Wales Press

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Remaking Brazil

Series Editors 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 (Swansea University) David Gies (University of Virginia) Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham) Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)

Other titles in the series Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power Edited by Helena Buffery and Carlota Caulfield From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage: The Humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood Film Stuart Nishan Green Galdós’sTorquemadaNovels: Waste and Profit in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain Teresa Fuentes Peris Killing Carmens: Women’s Crime Fiction from Spain Shelley Godsland Modern Argentine Poetry: Exile, Displacement, Migration Ben Bollig Catalonia: National Identity and Cultural Policy Kathryn Crameri Melancholy and Culture: Diseases of the Soul in Golden Age Spain Roger Bartra The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’sProverbios y Cantares Nicolas Fernandez-Medina Shakespeare in Catalan: Translating Imperialism Helena Buffery The Novels of José Saramago: Echoes from the Past, Pathways into the Future David G. Frier Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Social Identity in Spain, 1850 – 1960 Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vàzquez Garcia Los Invisibles:A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850–1940 Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vàzquez Garcia Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and Fiction Lloyd Hughes Davies Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture Yaw Agawu-Kakraba Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain: Hildegart Rodriguez and the World League for Sexual Reform Alison Sinclair Western Sahara: The Refugee Nation Pablo San Martín Women in Mexican Folk Art: Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters and Celebrities Eli Bartra The Films of Elías Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes Tom Whittaker

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Remaking Brazil

Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

TATIANA SIGNORELLI HEISE

© Tatiana Signorelli Heise, 2012

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ISBN 978–0–7083–2509–4 (paperback) 978–0–7083–2508–7 (hardback) e-ISBN 978–0–7083–2516–2 The right of Tatiana Signorelli Heise to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements

Introduction

Contents

PART I: Constructions of Brazilian National Identity Chapter 1. Forging the Nation Chapter 2. Modernity, Exclusion and Inclusion

Chapter 3. Identity and Hegemony: The Authoritarian State and Nation-Building Chapter 4. Resisting the Hegemonic Discourse

PART II: Brazilian National Identity in Contemporary Films Chapter 5. The Brazilian Film Industry in the 1990s and 2000s

Chapter 6. Celebration: The Brazilian Way of Being Chapter 7. Reform: The Land of Samba, Football, Violence and Discrimination Chapter 8. Opposition: Visions of Disorder and Regression Chapter 9. The Rise of Alternative Social Identities Conclusion

Glossary Notes Select Bibliography

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