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r, Brazilian Cinema Expanded Edition Randal Johnson and Robert Stam, Editors ~ ~ •..... ~ Columbia University Press New York ( 13 (Summer Contents 95-IH447 Preface 9 Acknowledgments 11 Part I The Shape of Brazilian Film History 15 Part 11 The Theory of Brazilian Cinema: The Filmmakers Speak 53 Introduction 55 l. "For a Popular Revolutionary Art" -Carios Estevam 58 2. "Cinema Novo" -Carlos Diegues 64 3. "An Esthetic of Hunger" -Glauber Rocha 68 4. "Criticism and Self-Criticism"- Joaquim Pedro de Andrade and Alex Viany 72 5. "The Tricontinental Filmmaker: That Is Called the Dawn" -Glauber Rocha 76 6. "Cannibalism and Self-Cannibalism" - Joaquim Pedro de Andrade 81 7. "Everybody's Woman"- Rogerio Sganzerla 84 8. "From the Drought to the Palm Trees" -Glauber Rocha 86 9. "The Luz e AfeZo Manifesto" -Collective 90 10. ''Toward a Common Market of Portuguese- and Spanish- Speaking Countries" - Roberto Farias 93 1l. "Popular Cinema and the State: Two Views" -Carlos Diegues and Rui Guerra 98 12. "Embrafilme: Present Problems and Future Possibilities" -Gustavo Dahl 104 13. 'Jack Valenti's Brazilian Agenda" -Arnaldo Jabor 109 Part III Cinema Novo and Beyond: The Films 115 Introduction 117 5 F 14. "The Cinema of Hunger: Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vidas Secas" - Randal Johnson and Roben Stam 120 15. "Cinema and The Guns" - Robeno Schwarz 128 16. "Biack God, White Devii: The Representation of History" - Ismail Xavier 134 17. "Land in A nguish" - Roben Stam 149 18. "Hunger for Love" - Elizabeth Merena and Joäo Luiz Vieira 162 19. "Ant6nio das Mortes" - Terry Ccirlson 169 20. "Cinema Novo and Cannibalism: Macunaima" -Randal Johnson 178 21. "How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman" -Richard Pefia 191 22. "Säo Bernardo: Property and the Personality" - Randal Johnson and Roben Stam 200 23. "Lesson of Love" - Randal Johnson 208 24. "Carnivalesque Celebration in Xica da Sz'lva" - Randal Johnson 216 25. "Tent of Miracles" -Marsha Kinder 225 26. "Formal Innovation and Radical Critique in The Fall" - Roben Stam 234 Part IV Special Topics and Polemics 241 Introduction 243 27. "Cinema: A Trajectory within Underdevelopment" - Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes 244 28. "From High Noon toJaws: Carnival and Parody in Brazilian Cinema" - Joäo Luiz Vieira 256 29. "Vera Cruz: A Brazilian Hollywood" -Maria Rita Galväo 270 30. "Trajectory of an Oseillation" - Jean-Claude Bernardet 281 31. "Alma Brasileira: Music in the Films of Glauber Rocha" -Graham Bruce 290 32. "On the Margins: Brazilian Avant-Garde Cinema" - Roben Stam 306 33. "Seeing. Hearing, Filming: Notes on the Brazilian Documentary" - Jose Carlos Avellar 328 34. "When Women Film"-Elice Munerato and Maria Helena Darcy de Oliveira 340 35. "Hollywood Looks at Brazil: From Carmen Miranda to Moonraker" - Sergio Augusto 351 36. "The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Cinema, 1960-1990" Randal Johnson 362 Part V The Shape of Brazilian Cinema in the Postmodern Age - Roben Stam, Joäo Luiz Vieira, and Ismail Xavier 387 Dedicated to 1 The Contributors 473 fOT all he has c Index 477 6 .