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Author:   Jack A. Draper ,  Cacilda M. Rêgo
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438490243

ISBN 10:   1438490240
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   02 April 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Jack A. Draper III and Cacilda M. Rêgo Part 1: Breaking Ground/Making Space in the Industry 1. Recognizing Women’s Contributions to Brazilian Cinema Cacilda M. Rêgo 2. Behind the Scenes: Brazilian Women Screenwriters in Film and Television Leslie L. Marsh 3. Resistance and Online Activism: Brazilian Women Filmmakers’ Initiatives (2014–2017) Daniela Verztman Bagdadi 4. Interview with Maria Augusta Ramos Jack A. Draper III, Cacilda M. Rêgo, and Gustavo Procopio Furtado Part 2: Politics of Public/Private Spaces 5. From Tweets to the Streets: Women’s Documentary Filmmaking and Brazil’s Feminist Spring Rebecca J. Atencio 6. Motherhood and Making Kin in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema Jack A. Draper III 7. The Many Mirrors of Maria Augusta Ramos: Landscape, Institutions, and Everyday Lives in Contemporary Brazil Paula Halperin 8. Interview with Petra Costa Jack A. Draper III Part 3: Intersecting Identities 9. Conditions for a Twenty-First-Century Black Woman Cinema in Brazil: The Politics and Aesthetics of Yasmin Thayná’s Audiovisual Practice María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez 10. Afro-Brazilian Women Creative Workers Speak: Juliana Vicente’s Standpoint Cinema (Cinema of O Lugar de Fala) Reighan Gillam 11. Interview with Mari Corrêa Gustavo Procopio Furtado 12. Interview with Paula Sacchetta Rebecca J. Atencio Contributors Index

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Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema looks beyond the white, male filmmaking canon and examines the impact of film viewing beyond the traditional cinema-going experience. Unique in its coverage, this collection makes a very significant contribution to the field. - Stephanie Dennison, author of Remapping Brazilian Film Culture in the Twenty-First Century

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Jack A. Draper III is Associate Professor of Portuguese at the University of Missouri. He is the author of Saudade in Brazilian Cinema: The History of Emotion on Film and Forró and Redemptive Regionalism from the Brazilian Northeast: Popular Music in a Culture of Migration, and is translator of The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer. Cacilda M. Rêgo is Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Cultural Studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Utah State University. She is coeditor (with Carolina Rocha) of New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema and coeditor (with Marcus Brasileiro) of Migration in Lusophone Cinema.

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