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Author Xavier, Ismail

Title Allegories of Underdevelopment : Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Contents pt. 1. The teleology of history -- pt. 2. The crisis of teleology -- pt. 3. Allegory and melancholy -- pt. 4. Allegory and deconstruction -- pt. 5. Further developments
Summary Focusing on a variety of filmmaker's use of narrative allegories for the "conservative modernization" Brazil and other nations underwent in the 1960s and 1970s, Ismail Xavier examines the way Cinema Novo transformed Brazil's cultural memory. Includes discussions of Black God, White Devil, Land in Anguish, Red Light Bandit, Macunama, Antnio das Mortes, The Angel Is Born, and Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
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Subject Motion pictures -- Brazil -- History
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Brazil
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
Brazil.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816686827
0816686823