Brazilian Cinema

Columbia University Press, 1995 Author(s): Randal Johnson,

Co‑edited with Robert Stam

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Brazilian Cinema. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982, 373 pp. Rpt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988. Co‑edited with Robert Stam. Expanded rpt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

From the documentary to the cinema novo and cannibalism, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos’sVidas Secas to music in the films of Glauber Rocha, this third, revised edition is a century-spanning introduction to the story of a medium that flourished in one of the most developed of ‘underdeveloped’ nations.

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