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

• Autore: Conde Maite <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.430981
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) In literature; Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) In motion pictures
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Consuming Visions is an ambitious and engaging examination of the ways in which mass culture can become an agent of intellectual and aesthetic transformation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Consuming visions
• ISBN: 1-280-67814-3; 9786613655073; 0-8139-3219-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822823903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New World studies.