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Author:   Carolina Rocha (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) ,  Cacilda M. Rêgo (Utah State University, USA)
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781841503752

ISBN 10:   1841503754
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   15 April 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

  I. Introduction   II. General Considerations    Chapter 1: The Fall and Rise of Brazilian Cinema – Cacilda Rêgo   Chapter 2: Globo Filmes, Sony and the Pre-Sold Promise: Commercial Filmmaking in the Brazilian Retomada – Courtney Brannon-Donoghue   Chapter 3: Close Strangers: The Role of Regional Cultural Policies in Brazilian and Argentinean New Cinemas – Marina Moguillansky   Chapter 4: Contemporary Argentine Cinema during Neoliberalism – Carolina Rocha   Chapter 5: New Visions of Patagonia: Video Collectives and the Creation of a Regional Movement in Argentina’s South – Tamara Falicov   III. Citizens and New Types of Citizenship, Class    Chapter 6: Leaving and Letting Go in Live-in-maid – Ana Ros   Chapter 7: Electoral Normalcy and Social Anomaly: the Nueve reinas/Nine Queens paradigm and reformulated Argentine cinema, 1989-2001 – Ana Laura Lunish   Chapter 8: Staging Class and Ethnicity in Lucrecia Martel’s La ciénaga – Ana Peluffo   Chapter 9: Landscape and the Artist’s Frame in Lucrecia Martel’s La ciénaga and La niña santa – Amanda Holmes   Chapter 10: Transactional Fictions: (Sub)urban Realism in the Films of Caetano and Trapero – Beatriz Urraca   Chapter 11: Police and Policing in Recent Argentine Cinema – James Scorer   Chapter 12: The productive web of Brazil's urban über-dramas – Piers Armstrong   Chapter 13: Fernando Meirelles’s City of God: The Representation of Racial Resentment and Violence in the New Brazilian Social Cinema – Vanessa Fitzgibbon   IV. Gender/Genre    Chapter 14: The Dystopian City: Gendered Interpretations of the Urban in Um Céu de Estrelas (Tata Amaral, 1996) and Vagón Fumador (Verónica Chen, 2001) – Charlotte Gleghorn   Chapter 15: Reimagining Rosinha with Andrucha Waddington and Elena Soarez: Nature, Woman, and Sexuality in the Brazilian Northeast from Popular Music to Cinema – Jack Draper III   Chapter 16: The Laughter Contract: Filmed History and Image Demolition in Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil – Regina Felix   Chapter 17: Brazilian Women’s Filmmaking before and after the Retomada – Leslie Marsh

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Cacilda M. Rego received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portugese at the University of Kansas, where she teaches Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies.

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