Brazil on Screen

Brazil on Screen

Brazil on Screen was written by and Lúcia Nagib. The 200 page book was published by I.B.Tauris in 2007 with an ISBN 10 of 0857710982. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Brazil on Screen mentions 1 serial killers including Tiago Gomes da Rocha. The author Lúcia Nagib has 2 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Two periods of Brazilian film history are particularly notable for their artistic momentum: the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s and early ‘70s, and the film revival from the mid 1990s onwards. What makes them especially strong, this book argues, is their utopian impulse. By adopting Utopia as a theme, as well as a method of film analysis, Lúcia Nagib unveils, organises and interprets a fascinating wealth of recurrent images, which are a bridge between a cinema strongly concerned with the national project and another informed by global culture. Outstanding recent films, such as 'Central Station', 'Perfumed Ball', 'Hans Staden', 'Orfeu', 'City of God' and 'The Trespasser', are illuminated by Nagib’s sharp analysis, which detects utopian, an...