Remaking Brazil

Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

By (author) Tatiana Signorelli Heise

Publication date:

30 July 2012

Length of book:

324 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9780708325087

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity.

Introduction PART 1: The Making of Brazilian National Identity Chapter 1: Forging the Nation Chapter 2: Modernity, Exclusion and Inclusion Chapter 3: The Authoritarian State and Nation Building Chapter 4: Resisting the Dominant Ideology PART 2: Projected Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema Chapter 5: Celebration: The Brazilian Way of Being Chapter 6: Reform: The Land of Samba, Football and Inequality Chapter 7: Resistance: Asserting Alternative Identities Chapter 8: Opposition: Visions of Disorder (a sample of this chapter is provided)