[PDF] Brazil Incarnate eBook

Author : Christopher Pillitz
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Brazil
ISBN :

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"Christopher Pillitz spent five years traveling through Brazil with his camera. The result is a look at the lascivious, erotic cult of the body in Brazil, in which the boundaries between Eros and sex, narcissism and exhibitionism are virtually impossible to make out." "His sensual, moving images reveal to us the perspective of the fascinated observer. Yet Pillitz does not mime the viewer-from-a-distance. His camera seems to mingle with the people around it, provoking more than one eccentric to flights of exhibitionist fancy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Christopher Pillitz
Publisher :
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 9780953675616

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Over a period of five years, Christopher Pillitz has explored the phenomenon of Brazilian body culture, where overt sexuality becomes an art form on the beaches and in the bars of Brazil's coastline. With interviews by the author with individuals ranging from psychologists to prostitutes, this study is an exploration of Brazil's dynamic and vibrant culture.

Author : Teresa A. Meade
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1438108214

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Only slightly smaller in size than the United States

Author : Lúcia Nagib
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857710982

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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 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, anti-utopian and even dystopian impulses in them. They are at once representatives of a political arena in constant struggle against underdevelopment and legitimate (as well as critical) heirs of past cinematic traditions. Throwing new light on a large selection of Cinema Novo and contemporary films, this book thus presents a national cinema that rejects the end of history and of film history, while benefiting from, and contributing to, a new transnational aesthetics.

Author : Marshall C. Eakin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1107175763

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This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiçagem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.

Author : Antonio Pedro Tota
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0292773692

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Following completion of the U.S. air base in Natal, Brazil, in 1942, U.S. airmen departing for North Africa during World War II communicated with Brazilian mechanics with a thumbs-up before starting their engines. This sign soon replaced the Brazilian tradition of touching the earlobe to indicate agreement, friendship, and all that was positive and good—yet another indication of the Americanization of Brazil under way during this period. In this translation of O Imperialismo Sedutor, Antonio Pedro Tota considers both the Good Neighbor Policy and broader cultural influences to argue against simplistic theories of U.S. cultural imperialism and exploitation. He shows that Brazilians actively interpreted, negotiated, and reconfigured U.S. culture in a process of cultural recombination. The market, he argues, was far more important in determining the nature of this cultural exchange than state-directed propaganda efforts because Brazil already was primed to adopt and disseminate American culture within the framework of its own rapidly expanding market for mass culture. By examining the motives and strategies behind rising U.S. influence and its relationship to a simultaneous process of cultural and political centralization in Brazil, Tota shows that these processes were not contradictory, but rather mutually reinforcing. The Seduction of Brazil brings greater sophistication to both Brazilian and American understanding of the forces at play during this period, and should appeal to historians as well as students of Latin America, culture, and communications.

Author : Shay Sayre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135839956

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Providing an overview of the entertainment industry, this study includes entertainment economics, theories of entertainment, entertainment research, & covers different types of entertainment including media, sports, gaming, theme entertainment, travel & tourism, & live performance.

Author : Jerry Dávila
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2003-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 0822384442

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In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view it as a cultural and environmental condition. Jerry Dávila explores the significance of this transition by looking at the history of the Rio de Janeiro school system between 1917 and 1945. He demonstrates how, in the period between the world wars, the dramatic proliferation of social policy initiatives in Brazil was subtly but powerfully shaped by beliefs that racially mixed and nonwhite Brazilians could be symbolically, if not physically, whitened through changes in culture, habits, and health. Providing a unique historical perspective on how racial attitudes move from elite discourse into people’s lives, Diploma of Whiteness shows how public schools promoted the idea that whites were inherently fit and those of African or mixed ancestry were necessarily in need of remedial attention. Analyzing primary material—including school system records, teacher journals, photographs, private letters, and unpublished documents—Dávila traces the emergence of racially coded hiring practices and student-tracking policies as well as the development of a social and scientific philosophy of eugenics. He contends that the implementation of the various policies intended to “improve” nonwhites institutionalized subtle barriers to their equitable integration into Brazilian society.

Author : C. Sterling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137010002

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This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop.