Author : Ana Rita Mendonça
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Singers
ISBN :
Carmen Miranda foi a Washington
Ana Rita Mendonça
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Carmen Miranda
Lisa Shaw
Author : Lisa Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838714901
This is the first book-length study of Carmen Miranda in English. It traces her origins as a radio singer, recording artist and film star in Brazil in the 1930s, before exploring in depth her Hollywood screen roles and the construction of her long-lasting star persona in the USA.
Creating Carmen Miranda
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Author : Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826503853
Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the "ambassadress of samba" suddenly took a knee during a dance number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments to continue with what she did best: performing. By the next morning, she was dead from heart failure at age 46. This final performance in many ways exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda. The actress, singer, and dancer pursued a relentless mission to demonstrate the provocative theatrical force of her cultural roots in Brazil. Armed with bare-midriff dresses, platform shoes, and her iconic fruit-basket headdresses, Miranda stole the show in films like That Night in Rio and The Gang's All Here. For American film audiences, her life was an example of the exoticism of a mysterious, sensual South America. For Brazilian and Latin American audiences, she was an icon. For the gay community, she became a work of art personified and a symbol of courage and charisma. In Creating Carmen Miranda, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through the myriad methods Miranda consciously used to shape her performance of race, gender, and camp culture, all to further her journey down the road to becoming a legend.
Brazilian National Cinema
Lisa Shaw
Author : Lisa Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134702108
Brazilian cinema is one of the most influential national cinemas in Latin America and this wide-ranging study traces the evolution of Brazilian film from the silent era to the present day, including detailed studies of more recent international box-office hits, such as Central Station (1998) and City of God (2002). Brazilian National Cinema gives due importance to traditionally overlooked aspects of Brazilian cinema, such as popular genres, ranging from musical comedies (the chanchada) to soft-core porn films (the pornochanchada) and horror films, and also provides a fresh approach to the internationally acclaimed avant-garde Cinema Novo of the 1960s. Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison apply recent theories on stardom, particularly relating to issues of ethnicity, race and gender, to both well-known Brazilian performers, such as Carmen Miranda and Sonia Braga, and lesser known domestic icons, such as the Afro-Brazilian comic actor, Grande Otelo (Big Othello), and the uberblonde children’s TV and film star, and media mogul, Xuxa. This timely addition to the National Cinemas series provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Brazilian cinema and issues of national and cultural identity.
Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema
Tim Bergfelder
Author : Tim Bergfelder
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1785332996
Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in “star studies,” Brazilian film has received comparatively little attention. As this volume demonstrates, however, the richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda. Among the studies assembled here are fascinating explorations of figures such as Eliane Lage (the star attraction of São Paulo’s Vera Cruz studios), cult horror movie auteur Coffin Joe, and Lázaro Ramos, the most visible Afro-Brazilian actor today. At the same time, contributors interrogate the inner workings of the star system in Brazil, from the pioneering efforts of silent-era actresses to the recent advent of the non-professional movie star.
Hello, Hello Brazil
Bryan McCann
Author : Bryan McCann
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2004-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822332732
DIVA study of the foundation of Brazilian popular music and its effect on the formation of national identity and cultural expression./div
Becoming Brazilian
Marshall C. Eakin
Author : Marshall C. Eakin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1107175763
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.
It’s All True
Catherine L. Benamou
Author : Catherine L. Benamou
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520242483
"This is an extremely rigorous, thorough piece of superior scholarship on one of the most important figures in the history of cinema. Benamou introduces a wealth of material on the production process and the repercussions of this project in Latin America, which have been entirely missing from earlier, auteur-centered accounts; this alone makes it a book of great importance. We can't ask for a more definitive, groundbreaking study than the one Benamou has given us."—Bill Nichols, author of Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde
A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film
Darlene J. Sadlier
Author : Darlene J. Sadlier
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1477325255
Since the late nineteenth century, Brazilians have turned to documentaries to explain their country to themselves and to the world. In a magisterial history covering one hundred years of cinema, Darlene J. Sadlier identifies Brazilians’ unique contributions to a diverse genre while exploring how that genre has, in turn, contributed to the making and remaking of Brazil. A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film is a comprehensive tour of feature and short films that have charted the social and political story of modern Brazil. The Amazon appears repeatedly and vividly. Sometimes—as in a prize-winning 1922 feature—the rainforest is a galvanizing site of national pride; at other times, the Amazon has been a focus for land-reform and Indigenous-rights activists. Other key documentary themes include Brazil’s swings from democracy to dictatorship, tensions between cosmopolitanism and rurality, and shifting attitudes toward race and gender. Sadlier also provides critical perspectives on aesthetics and media technology, exploring how documentaries inspired dramatic depictions of poverty and migration in the country’s Northeast and examining Brazilians’ participation in streaming platforms that have suddenly democratized filmmaking.
The Cinema of Latin America
Alberto Elena
Author : Alberto Elena
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 2004-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231501943
The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerous national cinemas around the world. This volume focuses on the vibrant practices that make up Latin American cinema, a historically important regional cinema and one that is increasingly returning to popular and academic appreciation. Through 24 individual concise and insightful essays that each consider one significant film or documentary, the editors of this volume have compiled a unique introduction to the cinematic output of countries as diverse as Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Bolivia, Chile and Venezuala. The work of directors such as Luis Buñuel, Thomas Guiterrez Alea, Walter Salles, and Alfonso Arau is discussed and the collection includes in-depth studies of seminal works as such Los Olvidados, The Hour of the Furnaces, Like Water For Chocolate, Foreign Land, and Amoros Perros.