From its inception, Brazilian cinema has combined extra-filmic artistic and cultural forms, both local and imported, resulting in an original aesthetic blend. Theatre, dance, music, circus, radio, television and the plastic arts left a distinctive mark on Brazilian cinema's poetics and politics, as can be observed in a host of fascinating phenomena analysed in this book, including: the film prologues that connected the screen to the stage in the 1920s; the chanchada musical comedies, inflected by vaudeville theatre and the radio; the manguebeat and arido movie movements that blurred the boundaries between music and film; and contemporary multimedia installations and other experiments. By adopting intermediality as a historiographic method, this book reconstructs the history and cultural wealth behind filmic expressions in Brazilian cinema.

About the Author
Lucia Nagib, Professor, University of Reading. Luciana Correa de Araujo, Assistant Professor, Federal University of Sao Carlos. Tiago de Luca, Reader in Film Studies, University of Warwick.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474452984
Author Lucia Nagib
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press