Awards

• Winner of MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Award for Edited Collection of the Year 2023

Overview

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 rido 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.

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Reviews

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 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

Author Information

Lúcia Nagib is Professor of Film at the University of Reading. She is the author of seven books, among them, Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (Bloomsbury, 2011). She has edited and co-edited eleven books, among them the award-winning volumes The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium Through Other Media (with Stefan Solomon, Oxford University Press, 2023) and Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (with Luciana Corrêa de Araújo and Tiago de Luca, Edinburgh University Press, 2022). 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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