Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema

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Edited by Lúcia Nagib, Luciana Corrêa de Araújo and Tiago de Luca

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Brazil

Keywords

Brazil, history of cinema, intermedia

Publishing date

2022

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 304 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-5298-4

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Book Presentation:
Presents a new history of Brazilian Cinema, based on its dialogue with other arts and media
• Launches an entirely new historiographic method, drawing on intermediality in order to reconstruct the history of a national cinema
• Unveils the multimedia and polymathic wealth behind the various historical periods in Brazilian cinema
• Provides an overarching historical coverage of Brazilian cinema, through an innovative approach that connects different periods in Brazilian film history through the multiple art and media forms interwoven in them
• Proposes that different phases of a national cinema can be framed as comparable and interrelated phenomena, rather than relying on evolutionary chronologies and classical-modern or centre-periphery models
• Explores new ways of understanding Brazilian film history, and the history of cinema in general

From its inception, Brazilian cinema has combined extra-filmic artistic and cultural forms, both local and imported, resulting in an original aesthetic blend. Theatre, dance, music, circus, radio, television and the plastic arts left a distinctive mark on Brazilian cinema’s poetics and politics, as can be observed in a host of fascinating phenomena analysed in this book, including: the film prologues that connected the screen to the stage in the 1920s; the chanchada musical comedies, inflected by vaudeville theatre and the radio; the manguebeat and árido movie movements that blurred the boundaries between music and film; and contemporary multimedia installations and other experiments. By adopting intermediality as a historiographic method, this book reconstructs the history and cultural wealth behind filmic expressions in Brazilian cinema.

About the authors:
Lúcia Nagib is Professor of Film at the University of Reading. Her many books include Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (2020), World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (2011) and Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia (2007). She is the co-director with Samuel Paiva of the award-winning documentary Passages. She is editor, with Julian Ross, of the World Cinema series and, with Tiago de Luca, of the Film Thinks series.
Luciana Corrêa de Araújo is Assistant Professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil. She is the author of A crônica de cinema no Recife dos anos 50 (1997) and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade: primeiros tempos (2013) and co-editor of Estudos de cinema e audiovisual Socine Estadual São Paulo (2012).Tiago de Luca is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth (2022), Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality (2014) and the editor (with Nuno Barradas Jorge) of Slow Cinema (2016). He is the editor (with Lúcia Nagib) of the Film Thinks series.

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