Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia

by Lúcia Nagib

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, Lucia Nagib unveils, organises and interprets a fascinating wealth of recurrent images, which are a bridge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845113284
• ISBN13: 9781845113285
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"