Tropicalismo

Author : Ismail Xavier
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816626766

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Allegories of Underdevelopment by Ismail Xavier Pdf

" 'A camera in the hand and ideas in the head' was the primary axiom of the young originators of Brazil's Cinema Novo. This movement of the 1960s and early 1970s overcame technical constraints and produced films on minimal budgets. In Allegories of Underdevelopment, Ismail Xavier examines a number of these films, arguing that they served to represent a nation undergoing a political and social transformation into modernity. Its best-known voice, filmmaker Glauber Rocha claimed that Cinema Novo was driven by an "aesthetics of hunger." This scarcity of means demanded new cinematic approaches that eventually gave rise to a legitimate and unique Third World cinema. Xavier stands in the vanguard of scholars presenting and interpreting these revolutionary films - from the masterworks of Rocha to the groundbreaking experiments of Julio Bressane, Rogério Sganzerla, Andrea Tonacci and Arthur Omar - to an English-speaking audience. Focusing on each filmmaker's use of narrative allegories for the "conservative modernization" Brazil and other nations underwent in the 1960s and 1970s, Xavier asks questions relating to the connection between film and history. He examines the way Cinema Novo transformed Brazil's cultural memory and charts the controversial roles that Marginal Cinema and Tropicalism played in this process. Among the films he discusses are Black God, White Devil, Land in Anguish, Red Light Bandit, Macunaíma, Antônio das Mortes, The Angel Is Born, and Killed the Family and Went to the Movies." -- Book cover.

Author : Sytze Steenstra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826439772

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Song and Circumstance by Sytze Steenstra Pdf

For over three decades now, David Byrne has been a leading light in American culture - in popular music, experimental theatre, film, television, fine art, and writing. Based on the cultural capital he gained with his groundbreaking band Talking Heads, Byrne is able to enter into collaborations with many artists, some of popular fame -Brian Eno and Jonathan Demme, for example - and others known best in more specialized circles - such as Joseph Kosuth, Twyla Tharp, and Caetano Veloso. The map of Byrne's collaborations, including the casual and incidental ones, reveals an ongoing effort to combine avant-gardism with popular appeal. This highly original and illustrated account of David Byrne's career is structured by choosing a specific abstract approach, or a combination of two approaches, for each chapter, discussing the parallels and contradictions between such approaches to benefit the interpretation of Byrne's art. As a result, the fertile conceptual brew that characterizes Byrne's way of making art is present from the beginning, while each chapter adds to thorough insight and developing perspective.

Author : Santiago Juan-Navarro,Theodore Robert Young
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874137330

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A Twice-told Tale by Santiago Juan-Navarro,Theodore Robert Young Pdf

Essays on Iberian views of the age of conquest through literature and cinema

Author : A. Isfahani-Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403981622

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The Masters and the Slaves by A. Isfahani-Hammond Pdf

This collection presents a comparative study of the impact of slavery on the literary and cultural imagination of the Americas, and also on the impact of writing on slavery on the social legacies of slavery's history. The chapters examine the relationship of slavery and master/slave relations to nationalist projects throughout the Americas - the ways in which a history of slavery and its abolition has shaped a nation's identity and race relations within that nation. The scope of the study is unprecedented - the book ties together the entire 'Black Atlantic', including the French and Spanish Caribbean, the US, and Brazil. Through reading texts on slavery and its legacy from these countries, the volume addresses the eroticization of the plantation economy, various formations of the master/slave dialectic as it has emerged in different national contexts, the plantation as metaphor, and the relationship between texts that use cultural vs biological narratives of mestizaje (being interracial). These texts are examined with the goal of locating the origins of the different notions of race and racial orders that have arisen throughout the Americas. Isfahani-Hammond argues that without a critical revisiting of slavery and its various incarnations throughout the Americas, it is impossible to understand and rethink race relations in today's world.

Author : Andrew Jones
Publisher : SAF Publishing Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0946719152

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Plunderphonics, 'pataphysics & Pop Mechanics by Andrew Jones Pdf

Where new music collides with contemporary pop (as opposed to jazz or classical), Plunderphonics explains the implications of the new wave of sonic appropriation.

Author : Juan E. De Castro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230611788

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The Spaces of Latin American Literature by Juan E. De Castro Pdf

The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production examines how Latin American writers, artists, and intellectuals have negotiated their relationship with Western culture from the colony to the present. De Castro looks at writers and intellectual polemics that serve as markers of the region's cultural evolution. Among the writers and artists studied are Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, Caetano Veloso, and Alberto Fuguet. This book proposes an analysis of the region's literature rooted in its specific cultural, political, and economic locations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arts
ISBN : UCSD:31822028788511

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Studies in Latin American Popular Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780756695699

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil by Anonim Pdf

Now available in PDF format. Brazil evokes images of Carnaval, skillful soccer teams, the sounds of bossa nova and samba, and Brazilians of all ages swaying across the white sands of Ipanema and Copacabana in the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil leads you straight to the very best this vibrant country has to offer. This complete travel guide for Brazil includes street-by-street neighborhood maps of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, unique cutaway illustrations, floor plans, and reconstructions of must-see sights, plus 3-D aerial views of the key areas to explore on foot. You'll also find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide. Insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Brazil, from the pristine island resorts of Sao Paulo to the thundering Iguazu Falls to the Amazon rain forest; to colonial towns, remote villages, and Brasília's Modernist architecture. Practical travel information will help you get around by train, bus, or car. Discover the authentic spirit of this lively Latin American nation with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil.

Author : David Bradby,Maria M. Delgado
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719061849

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The Paris Jigsaw by David Bradby,Maria M. Delgado Pdf

Theater and drama professionals and professors address the role of Paris as an international theater city and the intercultural webs of Parisian theater. Essays address Peter Brook and Le Centre International de Creations Theatrales; Jacques Lecoq and his "Ecole Internationale de Theatre" in Paris; Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil; and Augusto Boal and the Theatre de l'Opprime. In the second part, the input of different national theater traditions to the internationalism of Paris is explored, including Germany, Russia, Spain, Argentina, the US, and Africa. Distributed by Palgrave. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Alex Robinson,Christopher Pickard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780756648619

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil by Alex Robinson,Christopher Pickard Pdf

A highly illustrated guide to Brazil in the award-winning DK Eyewitness Travel series

Author : Christopher Dunn
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469615707

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Brutality Garden by Christopher Dunn Pdf

In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to 1985. With key manifestations in theater, cinema, visual arts, literature, and especially popular music, Tropicalia dynamically articulated the conflicts and aspirations of a generation of young, urban Brazilians. Focusing on a group of musicians from Bahia, an impoverished state in northeastern Brazil noted for its vibrant Afro-Brazilian culture, Christopher Dunn reveals how artists including Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Ze created this movement together with the musical and poetic vanguards of Sao Paulo, Brazil's most modern and industrialized city. He shows how the tropicalists selectively appropriated and parodied cultural practices from Brazil and abroad in order to expose the fissure between their nation's idealized image as a peaceful tropical "garden" and the daily brutality visited upon its citizens.

Author : DK Travel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465452016

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Brazil by DK Travel Pdf

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil is your in-depth guide to the very best of this country in South America, publishing in time for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro. Whether you want to explore the streets of Rio de Janeiro or lounge on its beaches, celebrate the culture of Carnaval and discover the best places to hear the sounds of bossa nova and samba, or explore the vast Amazon rain forest in the north, Brazil proves to be an extraordinarily diverse country of modern cities, verdant landscapes, and rich heritage. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights. + Detailed city maps of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo include street finder indexes for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Brazil truly shows you this country as no one else can.

Author : Jane Ladle
Publisher : Langenscheidt Publishing Group
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0887291309

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Brazil by Jane Ladle Pdf

Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find:.Evocative, full-colour photography on every page.Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout.A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively, essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people.Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing.Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest.A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children

Author : Anonim
Publisher : EDT srl
Page : 917 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9788860409409

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Brasile by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cross-cultural orientation
ISBN : WISC:89077887685

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Colors by Anonim Pdf