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Consuming visions : cinema, writing, and modernity in Rio de Janeiro /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conde, Maite, 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series:New World studies.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature) > Brazil.
Motion pictures in literature.
Brazilian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Motion pictures and literature > Brazil.
Motion pictures > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > In literature.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > In motion pictures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Writers, film, and the new visual landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Documenting new urban experiences: the cinematic work of the Crônica
  • Comic visions of the new city: writers and film production during the Belle Époque of Brazilian cinema
  • Writers, film, and alternative visions of Rio de Janeiro. Envisioning a new political landscape: Martin Fontes's anarchist flirtation with film
  • Women, Rio's modernity, and film's visual pleasures: Benjamin Costallat's Mademoiselle Cinema
  • Conclusion. Reviving the lettered city.