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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451921203321

Autore

Conde Maite <1971->

Titolo

Consuming visions [[electronic resource] ] : cinema, writing, and modernity in Rio de Janeiro / / Maite Conde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-67814-3

9786613655073

0-8139-3219-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

New World studies

Disciplina

791.430981

Soggetti

Brazilian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Brazil

Motion pictures and literature - Brazil

Motion pictures in literature

Motion pictures - Brazil - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) In literature

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) In motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.