Remaking Brazil : Contested national identities in contemporary Brazilian cinema
(2012)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : University of Wales Press, 2012
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781783165292 MWT15785241, 1783165294 15785241
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity. Focusing on the idea of the nation as an 'imagined community', the author discuss the various ways in which dominant ideas about brasilidade (Brazilian national consciousness) are dramatised, supported or attacked in contemporary fiction and documentary films
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