Nelson Pereira dos Santos / Darlene J. Sadlier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadlier, Darlene J. (Darlene Joy)

Series:

Contemporary film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Santos, Nelson Pereira dos, 1928-2018--Criticism and interpretation.

Santos, Nelson Pereira dos.

Santos, Nelson Pereira dos, 1928-2018.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]

Summary:

Nelson Pereira dos Santos is the first book in English to provide a full critical discussion of the films of Latin America's most important living director. A leader of the Cinema Novo movement, dos Santos is responsible for some of Brazil's most socially important and artistically engaging movies. He is the director of sixteen feature-length films and numerous shorts and documentaries. Through a discussion of his films Darlene J. Sadlier chronicles dos Santos's career -- his leftist committed cinema, his concern with the national and the popular, his chameleon style, his links to canonical Brazilian literature. She charts his moves from neorealism to Godardian experimentation to a kind of popular realism. And she includes two highly informative interviews that reveal dos Santos's cultural, intellectual, and philosophical formation.

Contents:

A Cinema of the People 1

The Apprenticeship Years: Sao Paulo, Paris, Rio

Toward a Socially Committed Cinema: Rio, 40 graus

Rio, Zona Norte, Mandacaru Vermelho, Boca de Ouro, and the Beginning of the Cinema Novo Movement

Vidas secas

From Comedy to Allegory: El justicero, Fome de amor, and Azyllo muito louco

Culture and Cannibalism: Como era gostoso o men frances

An Experiment in Science Fiction: Quem e Beta?

For a Popular Cinema: O amuleto de Ogum, Tenda dos milagres, and Estrada da vida

A Return to Adaptation: Memorias do carcere, Jubiaba, and A terceira margem do rio

Melodrama and Cinema Novo: Cinema de lagrimas

An Interview with Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1995) 122

An Interview with Nelson Pereira dos Santos (2001) 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-167), filmography (pages [153]-164), and index.

ISBN:

0252028139

0252071123

OCLC:

50243797