The new Brazilian cinema

324 Pages·2019·4.456 MB·English

by  University of Oxford. Centre for Brazilian Studies.;Nagib, Lúcia

The New Brazilian Cinema

The New Brazilian Cinema
Edited by
Lúcia Nagib
in association with
The Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford
Published in 2003 by I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
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Copyright © The Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, 2003
Copy editing: Neil Hancox and Stephen Shennan
Translation: Tom Burns, Stephanie Dennison, Vladimir Freire, Lúcia Nagib,
Lisa Shaw and Roderick Steel.
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Contents
List of illustrations viii
Notes on contributors xi
Foreword xv
Introduction xvii
Acknowledgements xxvii
Part one: Producing films in Brazil
1 A new policy for Brazilian Cinema
JOSÉÁLVAROMOISÉS 3
2 The cinema that Brazil deserves
CARLOSDIEGUES 23
Part two: Fiction film and social change
3 Brazilian Cinema in the 1990s: the unexpected
encounter and the resentful character
ISMAILXAVIER 39
4 Humility, guilt and narcissism turned inside out in
Brazil’s film revival
FERNÃOPESSOARAMOS 65
5 C h ronically Unfeasible:the political film in a
depoliticized world
JOÃOLUIZVIEIRA 85
Part three: Documenting a country
6 It’s all Brazil
AMIRLABAKI 97
7 A cinema of conversation – Eduardo Coutinho’s
Santo Forte and Babilônia 2000
VERÔNICAFERREIRADIAS 105
Part four:Sertãoandfavela:the eternal return
8 The sertãoand the favelain contemporary
Brazilian film
IVANABENTES 121
9 The sertãoin the Brazilian imaginary at the end of
the millennium
LUIZZANINORICCHIO 139
10 Death on the beach – the recycled utopia of
Midnight
LÚCIANAGIB 157
Part five: Screen adaptations
11 Nelson Rodrigues in the 1990s: two recent
screen adaptations
STEPHANIEDENNISON 175
12 An oblique gaze: irony and humour in Helvécio
Ratton’sLove & Co
MARIAESTHER MACIEL 193
Part six: History and film history
13 Cabral and the Indians: filmic representations of
Brazil’s 500 years
ROBERTSTAM 205
14 For alland traditions of popular musical comedy
LISASHAW 229
15 ImagiNation 245
JOSÉCARLOSAVELLAR
Part seven: Epilogue
16 Then and now: cinema as history in the light of
new media and new technologies
LAURAMULVEY 261
Index 271
List of illustrations
1 Dalva (Alleyona Cavalli) and Vítor
(Paulo Vespúcio Garcia) in Um céu de estrelas 43
2 Branquinha (Priscila Assum) and Japa
(Sílvio Guindane) in Como nascem os anjos 45
3 Alex (Fernanda Torres) and Paco
(Fernando Alves Pinto) in Terra estrangeira 51
4 Júlia Lemmertz and Alexandre Borges in
Um copo de cólera 57
5 Dora (Fernanda Montenegro) and Josué
(Vinícius de Oliveira) in Central do Brasil 61
6 Michael Coleman (Henry Czerny) in Jenipapo 75
7 Andréa/Maria (Fernanda Torres) and Charles
Elbrick (Alan Arkin) in O que é isso, companheiro? 76
8 Carlota Joaquina (Marieta Severo) in
Carlota Joaquina – princesa do Brasil 77
9 Maria Alice (Betty Gofman) in
Cronicamente inviável 87
10 Luiz Carlos Prestes in O velho 101
11 Terra do mar 103
12 Eduardo Coutinho in Babilônia 2000 107
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13 Teresa in Santo forte 111
14 A popular festival in Crede-mi 129
15 Patrícia França and Toni Garrido in Orfeu 131
16 Maria Emilce Pinto in Sertão das memórias 145
17 Lampião (Luís Carlos Vasconcelos) and
Maria Bonita (Zuleica Ferreira) in
Baile perfumado 149
18 João (Luís Carlos Vasconcelos) and a jailer
(Tonico Pereira) in O primeiro dia 159
19 Maria (Fernanda Torres) in O primeiro dia 169
20 Alicinha (Ludmila Dayer) in ‘Diabólica’,
an episode of Traição 183
21 Alves (Marco Nanini) and Ludovina
(Patrícia Pillar) in Amor & Cia. 195
22 Silvino Santos in O cineasta da selva 223
23 Yndio do Brasil 225
24 For all 235
25 Alva (Sonja Saurin), Ninhinha (Barbara Brandt)
and Liojorge (Ilya São Paulo) in A terceira margem
do rio 249