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Allegories of underdevelopment : aesthetics and politics in modern Brazilian cinema / Ismail Xavier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Xavier, Ismail.
- Standardized Title:
- Alegorias do subdesenvolvimento. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Brazil--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects--Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on a variety of filmmaker's use of narrative allegories for the "conservative modernization" Brazil and other nations underwent in the 1960's and 1970's, 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, Macunaíma, Antônio das Mortes, The Angel Is Born, and Killed the Family and Went to the Movies.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8682-3
- OCLC:
- 476094319
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