Remaking Brazil : Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema.

By: Heise, Tatiana SignorelliMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Iberian and Latin American StudiesPublisher: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (214 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780708325162Subject(s): National characteristics in motion pictures | National characteristics, Brazilian | Nationalism -- Brazil | Nationalism in motion picturesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Remaking Brazil : Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian CinemaDDC classification: 791.430981 LOC classification: PN1995.9.N33 -- H45 2012ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: Constructions of Brazilian National Identity -- Forging the Nation -- Modernity, Exclusion and Inclusion -- Identity and Hegemony: The Authoritarian State andNation-Building -- Resisting the Hegemonic Discourse -- Brazilian National Identity in Contemporary Films -- The Brazilian Film Industry in the 1990s and 2000s -- Celebration: The Brazilian Way of Being -- Reform: The Land of Samba, Football, Violence andDiscrimination -- Opposition: Visions of Disorder and Regression -- The Rise of Alternative Social Identities -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Select Bibliography.
Summary: This book explores conflicting conceptions of Brazilian national identity as they are expressed in contemporary Brazilian cinema, especially those revolving around the long-standing claim that Brazil is a racial democracy.
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Intro -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: Constructions of Brazilian National Identity -- Forging the Nation -- Modernity, Exclusion and Inclusion -- Identity and Hegemony: The Authoritarian State andNation-Building -- Resisting the Hegemonic Discourse -- Brazilian National Identity in Contemporary Films -- The Brazilian Film Industry in the 1990s and 2000s -- Celebration: The Brazilian Way of Being -- Reform: The Land of Samba, Football, Violence andDiscrimination -- Opposition: Visions of Disorder and Regression -- The Rise of Alternative Social Identities -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Select Bibliography.

This book explores conflicting conceptions of Brazilian national identity as they are expressed in contemporary Brazilian cinema, especially those revolving around the long-standing claim that Brazil is a racial democracy.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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