Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781474452984 / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

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List of Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Intervisuality; 1. Traffic in images: visual spectacle before cinema in Brazil; 2. Intermedial landscapes in the work of Cao Guimarães; 3. ‘The most innocent film of the year’: Comic Books, Sex and Cinema Marginal; 4. Photographs of the Invisible: Intermedial Figurations of Social Exclusion in Babás and Aquarius; 5. Exploring the Cinematic Imaginary: Carlos Adriano, André Parente, and the Precision of the Vague; Part II: The Empire of Music; 6. Watson Macedo’s Aviso aos navegantes (1950): reflections on the musical numbers of a Brazilian chanchada; 7. (In)Visible Musicians: Supporting Instrumentalists and their Intermedial Vocation; 8. Music-Video Aesthetics in Pernambucan Cinema; 9. Possessing Archival Images: ghosts, songs and films in Cartola – Música para os olhos (2007); Part III: Entertainment Circuits; 10. Intermediality in Brazilian Silent Cinema: Luiz de Barros’ works and intermedial strategies; 11. ‘Synchronised film fever’ amid the ‘gramophonoradiomania’: record, radio and cinema at the dawn of the ‘talkies’ in Rio de Janeiro; 12. The Singer, the Acrobats and the Bands: A Study of Three Brazilian Films and their Intermedial Characters; 13. Gilda de Abreu’s O Ébrio as a Unique Intermedial Project; 14. Chanchada, Samba and Beyond: From the cinema of radio to the cinema of television (1930s-1960s); Part IV: From Impure Cinema to Cosmopoetics; 15. Impure Cinema as Method: The last films of Eduardo Coutinho; 16. Queering Intermediality in Brazilian Cinema; 17. The Humiliation of the Father: Theatrical Melodrama and Cinema Novo’s Critique of Conservative Modernisation; 18. Intermedial Territories: Maps and the Amazonian Moving Image; 19. An Intermedial Reading of Glauber Rocha’s Cosmogony