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Tropical Multiculturalism - A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (Paperback, New)
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Tropical Multiculturalism - A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (Paperback, New)
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Tropical Multiculturalism provides a major study of race in
Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of
Brazilian cinema in any language. Focusing on representations of
multicultural themes involving Euro- and Afro-Brazilians, other
immigrants, and indigenous peoples in the rich tradition of
Brazilian fictional feature film, Robert Stam puts Brazilian
culture at the center of a wide-ranging analysis of race,
representation, history, and film. Drawing parallels between the
histories of colonialism, slavery, and immigration in Brazil and
the United States, he also contends that questions of ethnic and
racial representations are best viewed within the larger context of
a comparative analysis of racially plural societies. Stam examines
the broad historical and cultural links that connect Brazil and the
United States before considering multicultural imagery in Brazilian
film as it has changed from the silent era to the present. His
analysis moves through the comic chanchadas of the 1930s and 1940s,
to the Hollywood-style films from Sao Paulo in the 1950s, and the
diverse phases of Cinema Novo beginning in the 1960s. He explores a
wealth of subjects, including the submerged "blackness" of Carmen
Miranda, the anti-racist agenda of Orson Welles's never-released
Brazilian film It's All True, the international background behind
Black Orpheus, the career of Grande Otelo (Brazil's greatest black
film star), the allegorical "cannibalistic" films like How Tasty
Was My Frenchman, and "indigenous media"-the attempt by Brazilian
"indians" to use camcorders and VCRs for their own cultural and
political purposes. Tropical Multiculturalism is simultaneously a
history of Brazilian cinema from the standpoint of race, a history
of Brazil itself through its cinematic representations, a
comparative study of racial formations in Brazil and the United
States, and a theorized analysis of racialized representations.
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