A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film

From Nationalism to Protest

Darlene J. Sadlier (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2022
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2523-0 (ISBN)

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Since the late nineteenth century, Brazilians have turned to documentaries to explain their country to themselves and to the world. In a magisterial history covering one hundred years of cinema, Darlene J. Sadlier identifies Brazilians’ unique contributions to a diverse genre while exploring how that genre has, in turn, contributed to the making and remaking of Brazil.

A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film is a comprehensive tour of feature and short films that have charted the social and political story of modern Brazil. The Amazon appears repeatedly and vividly. Sometimes—as in a prize-winning 1922 feature—the rainforest is a galvanizing site of national pride; at other times, the Amazon has been a focus for land-reform and Indigenous-rights activists. Other key documentary themes include Brazil’s swings from democracy to dictatorship, tensions between cosmopolitanism and rurality, and shifting attitudes toward race and gender. Sadlier also provides critical perspectives on aesthetics and media technology, exploring how documentaries inspired dramatic depictions of poverty and migration in the country’s Northeast and examining Brazilians’ participation in streaming platforms that have suddenly democratized filmmaking.

Darlene J. Sadlier is a professor emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. She is the author of Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present, Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II, and The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora: Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Jungle and the City: Modernity in Two 1920s Documentaries
Chapter 2. Government Educational Shorts, Bandit Footage, and Vera Cruz Documentaries
Chapter 3. Documentary and Cinema Novo
Chapter 4. Documentary, Dictatorship, and Repression
Chapter 5. Biographies of a Sort, Part I (1974–1989)
Chapter 6. Documenting Identity
Chapter 7. Biographies of a Sort, Part II (1994–2016)
Chapter 8. The City and the Countryside
Epilogue: A Country in Crisis
Filmography
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2022
Zusatzinfo	75 b&w photos
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4773-2523-9 / 1477325239
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-2523-0 / 9781477325230
Zustand	Neuware