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IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
The Brazilian Road Movie
Series Editors
Professor David George (Swansea University)
Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)
Editorial Board
David Frier (University of Leeds)
Laura 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
The Brazilian Road Movie
Journeys of (Self) Discovery
EDITED BY SARA BRANDELLERO
© The Contributors, 2013
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Cover image: Tião Brasil Grande (Paulo César Pereio) and Iracema (Edna de Cássia): Iracema, umatransaamazônica (Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna, 1974). Photographer: Wolf Gauer. Image courtesy of Divulgação Iracema , Jorge Bodanzky, Wolf Gauer.
For Alice
Contents

Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I: On the Road
Chapter 1:     Silvino Santos and the Mobile View: Documentary Geographies of Modern Brazil Luciana Martins
Chapter 2:     Paths of Brazilian Road Movies in the 1950s Samuel Paiva
Chapter 3:     Bye bye Brasil and the Quest for the Nation Sara Brandellero
Chapter 4:     Framing Landscapes: the Return Journey in Suely in the Sky Mariana A. C. da Cunha
Chapter 5:     Road to Riches: Migration and Social Mobility in 2 filhos de Francisco Tatiana Signorelli Heise
Chapter 6:     God is Brazilian : a Re-Examination of Cinema Novo and Self Adriana Rouanet
Part II: The Voyage Out
Chapter 7:     Leaving Home in Three Films by Walter Salles Darlene J. Sadlier
Chapter 8:     Back to the Margins in Search of the Core: Foreign Land ’s Geography of Exclusion Lúcia Nagib
Chapter 9:     Sertão as Post-National Landscape: Cinema, aspirinas e urubus Stephanie Dennison
Chapter 10:  Women on the Road: Sexual Tourism and Beyond João Luiz Vieira
Series Editors’ Foreword

Over recent decades the traditional ‘languages and literatures’ model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superseded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and ‘area studies’ approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds – categories that extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa.
In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curriculum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of Cultural Production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions.
Acknowledgements

The editor wishes to record her debt of gratitude to all the contributors to this volume for collaborating in this project. Sincere thanks go to them. This volume originates from a one-day symposium held at Christ Church College Oxford in 2008, at which many of the chapters in this book were presented. The editor wishes to thank the Brazilian Studies programme at Oxford, the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Christ Church College for endorsing the event. Closer to home, the editor wishes to record her thanks to Leiden University’s Centre for the Arts in Society, for its generous financial support, and a particular thank you to Dr Korrie Korevaart, the Centre’s administrator. Thank you also to colleagues in the Latin American Studies programme at Leiden for their support in the final stages of preparation of this manuscript. Thank you to staff at University of Wales Press, and especially to Sarah Lewis, for their excellent help and guidance throughout the whole process of development and production of this volume. Thank you also to the anonymous reviewer for their careful reading and valuable comments on the various drafts of the manuscript. The editor is particularly grateful to Jorge Bodanzky for his generosity in supplying the cover image and stills from Iracema, uma transa amazônica , and to João Luiz Vieira for his help in arranging this. The editor and contributors wish to thank the following for their generosity in supplying images for inclusion here: Márcio Souza, Luz Mágica Produções Audiovisuais Ltda, Karim Aïnouz and Kirsten Johnson, Videofilmes, Jorge Bodanzky. Darlene J. Sadlier’s chapter, ‘Leaving Home in Three Films by Walter Salles’, originally appeared in Symploke 15/1–2 (2007), 135–50, and Lúcia Nagib’s chapter, ‘Back to the Margins in Search of the Core: Foreign Land ’s Geography of Exclusion’, originally appeared in D. Iordanova, D. Martin-Jones and B. Vidal (eds), Cinema at the Periphery: Industries, Narratives, Iconography (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010): we are grateful to the editors for their permission to republish. All effort has been made to trace copyright holders. Any omissions that are brought to our attention will be rectified in future editions. For reference, film titles in the chapters that follow are given in the original, with English translation provided for the first instance within a chapter; where a film has been shown abroad under an English title, this is given in italics. Textual translations into English have been provided by the contribu­ tors unless otherwise stated, with passages in the original given for reference whenever deemed suitable. Last but not least, a special thank you to Caroline Rainger for her assistance in the final stages of revi­ sion of the manuscript and to J. M. Alkmim for help with the images, and to him and Alice Alkmim, as always, for their sense of humour.
List of Illustrations

Cover Image Tião Brasil Grande (Paulo César Pereio) and Iracema (Edna de Cássia): Iracema, uma transa amazônica (Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna, 1974). Photographer: Wolf Gauer. Image courtesy of Divulgação Iracema , Jorge Bodanzky, Wolf Gauer.
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1      Copacabana beach, still from Fragmentos da terra encantada . Courtesy of Márcio Souza private collection, Manaus.
Figure 1.2      Interior of a streetcar, still from Fragmentos da terra encantada . Courtesy of Márcio Souza private collection, Manaus.
Figure 1.3      An unexpected apparition, still from 1922 – A exposição da independência . Courtesy of Márcio Souza private collection, Manaus.
Chapter 4
Figure 4.1      Hermila by the side of the road. Image © Kirsten Johnson. Courtesy of Karim Aïnouz and Kirsten Johnson.
Figure 4.2      Solitary tree. Image © Kirsten Johnson. Courtesy of Karim Aïnouz and Kirsten Johnson.
Figure 4.3      Hermila’s face. Image © Kirsten Johnson. Courtesy of Karim Aïnouz and Kirsten Johnson.
Chapter 6
Figure 6.1      God (played by Antônio Fagundes). Courtesy of Luz Mágica Produções Audiovisuais Ltda