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15 juillet 2012

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9780708325162

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English

This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity. Focusing on the idea of the nation as an 'imagined community', the author discuss the various ways in which dominant ideas about brasilidade (Brazilian national consciousness) are dramatised, supported or attacked in contemporary fiction and documentary films.
PART 1: The Making of Brazilian National Identity Chapter 1: Forging the Nation Chapter 2: Modernity, Exclusion and Inclusion Chapter 3: The Authoritarian State and Nation Building Chapter 4: Resisting the Dominant Ideology PART 2: Projected Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema Chapter 5: Celebration: The Brazilian Way of Being Chapter 6: Reform: The Land of Samba, Football and Inequality Chapter 7: Resistance: Asserting Alternative Identities Chapter 8: Opposition: Visions of Disorder

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Publié par

University of Wales Press

Date de parution

15 juillet 2012

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780708325162

Langue

English

Iberian and Latin American Studies

Remaking Brazil

Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

Tatiana Signorelli Heise

University of Wales Press

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Remaking Brazil

Series Editors Professor David George (Swansea University) Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)

Editorial Board David Frier (University of Leeds) Lisa Shaw (University of Liverpool) Gareth Walters (Swansea University) Rob Stone (Swansea University) David Gies (University of Virginia) Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham) Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)

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IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Remaking Brazil

Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

TATIANA SIGNORELLI HEISE

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ISBN 978–0–7083–2509–4 (paperback) 978–0–7083–2508–7 (hardback) e-ISBN 978–0–7083–2516–2 The right of Tatiana Signorelli Heise to be identiﬁed as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements

Introduction

Contents

PART I: Constructions of Brazilian National Identity Chapter 1. Forging the Nation Chapter 2. Modernity, Exclusion and Inclusion

Chapter 3. Identity and Hegemony: The Authoritarian State and Nation-Building Chapter 4. Resisting the Hegemonic Discourse

PART II: Brazilian National Identity in Contemporary Films Chapter 5. The Brazilian Film Industry in the 1990s and 2000s

Chapter 6. Celebration: The Brazilian Way of Being Chapter 7. Reform: The Land of Samba, Football, Violence and Discrimination Chapter 8. Opposition: Visions of Disorder and Regression Chapter 9. The Rise of Alternative Social Identities Conclusion

Glossary Notes Select Bibliography

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