Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema
Tiago De Luca editor Lucia Nagib editor Luciana Corrêa de Araújo editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:1st Jul '22
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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.
This volume sheds much-needed light on the complex dialogues with the other arts and media that characterise Brazilian cinema. It illustrates how the intermedial method can be used to interrogate and nuance traditional approaches to the study of any cinema culture. -- Lisa Shaw, University of Liverpool
With its focus on intermediality, this excellent volume offers new, multifaceted and innovative perspectives on the dynamic relationship between Brazilian cinema and diverse areas of cultural and artistic practice. An important contribution to the field. -- Randal Johnson, University of California Los Angeles
A major intervention in theory and analysis, this transdisciplinary collection deploys intermediality brilliantly as the key to open up the secret chambers of Brazilian cinema, revealing the cross-fertilisation of arts and media as a springboard for creativity. -- Robert Stam, New York University
- Winner of MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Award for Edited Collection of the Year 2023
ISBN: 9781474452984
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384 pages