Nelson Pereira dos Santos

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by Darlene J. Sadlier

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Keywords

Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil

Publishing date

2003

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Collection

Contemporary Film Directors

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 200 pages
5 ½ x 8 ¼ inches (14 x 21 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-252-07112-3
978-0-252-07112-6

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Book Presentation:
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.

Through a discussion of his films, Darlene J. Sadlier chronicles the filmmaker's epic career--his leftist-committed cinema, his concern with the national and the popular, his chameleon style, and his links to canonical Brazilian literature. She charts his moves from neo-realism to Godardian experimentation to a kind of popular realism and includes two highly informative interviews that reveal dos Santos's cultural, intellectual, and philosophical formation.

See the publisher website: University of Illinois Press