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"A camera in the hand and ideas in the head" was the primary axiom
of the young originators of Brazil's Cinema Novo. This movement of
the late 1960s and 1970s overcame technical constraints and
produced films made on practically non-existent budgets. This work
examines a number of these films, arguing that they served to
represent a nation undergoing a political and social transformation
into modernity. Film maker Glauber Rocha claimed that Cinema Novo
was driven by an "aesthetics of hunger". This scarcity of means
demanded new cinematic approaches which eventually gave rise to a
legitimate and unique Third World cinema. This text presents and
interprets revolutionary films - from the works of Rocha to the
experiments of Julio Bressane, Rogerio Sganzerla, Andrea Tonaci and
Arthur Omar. Focusing on each film maker's use of narrative
allegories for the "conservative modernization" Brazil and other
nations underwent in the 1960s and 1970s, the author asks questions
relating to the connection between film and history. He examines
the way in which Cinema Novo transformed Brazil's cultural memory
and charts the reactionary roles which Marginal Cinema and
Tropicalism played in this process. Among the films he discusses
are "Brazil: Year 2000", "Black God White Devil", "Land in
Anguish", "Red Light Bandit", "Macunaima", "Antonio das Mortes",
"The Angel is Born", and "Killed the Family and went to the
Movies". A history of modern Brazilian cinema, this book brings to
light the work of many film makers who are virtually unknown in the
English-speaking world.
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On Cinema (Paperback)
Glauber Rocha; Edited by Ismail Xavier; Translated by Charlotte Smith, Stephanie Dennison, Cecilia Mello; Edited by (associates) …
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Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of
landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio
das Mortes. Hitherto virtually unknown outside Brazil is that he
was also a brilliant film critic and innovative thinker on world
cinema. On Cinema brings together for the first time in the English
language a comprehensive selection of Rocha's film writings,
revealing for the first time to English-speaking readers the full
critical power, inventiveness and vision of a great filmmaker.
Rocha's writings, endowed with critical verve and humour, give
insights into key moments of film history, as well as the politics
of world cinema. Here he fearlessly confronts the film
establishment and debates with a host of sacred filmmakers of the
world pantheon. Included is Rocha's early criticism of Brazilian
films, landmark manifestoes such as 'An Aesthetics of Hunger' and
'An Aesthetics of Dreams', articles about the development of Cinema
Novo, and his international film criticism, including pieces on
Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, James Dean, David Lean, John Huston,
Stanley Kubrick, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Luchino Visconti and Roberto
Rossellini. The publication of On Cinema, edited by film scholar
Ismail Xavier and in expert translation, is an international
publishing event.
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