Popular cinema in Brazil, 1930–2001

Stephanie Dennison, Lisa Shaw

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9780719064999
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526141729
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film History & Criticism

Brazil has one of the most significant and productive film industries in Latin America. This ground-breaking study provides an entertaining insight into the Brazilian films that have most captured the imagination of domestic audiences over the years.

The recent international success of films such as Central Station and City of God, has stimulated widespread interest in Brazilian film, but studies written in English focus on the 'auteur' cinema of the 1960s. This book focuses on individual films in their socio-historical context, drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil and Latin America. It argues that Brazilian cinema has almost always been grounded in intrinsically home-grown cultural forms, dating back to the nineteenth century, such as the Brazilian music-hall, the travelling circus, radio shows, carnival, and, later, comedy television.

Combining a chronological structure with groundbreaking research and a lively approach, Popular cinema in Brazil is the ideal introduction to Brazilian cinema.

Table of contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• The cultural origins of popular cinema in Brazil
• The 1930s
• The 1940s
• The 1950s
• The 1960s
• The 1970s
• The 1980s
• The 1990s
• Conclusion
• Filmography
• Select bibliography
• Index