The new Brazilian cinema

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In a comprehensive critical survey of Brazilian film production since the mid-1990s Lucia Nagib explores what has become known as the 'renaissance of Brazilian cinema'. Besides explaining the recent boom, this book explores the aesthetic tendencies of recent productions and their relationships to earlier works.;A new policy for Brazilian cinema / José Álvaro Moisés -- The cinema that Brazil deserves / Carlos Diegues -- Brazilian cinema in the 1990s : the unexpected encounter and the resentful character / Ismail Xavier -- Humility, guilt and narcissism turned inside out in Brazil's film revival / Fernão Pessoa Ramos -- Chronically unfeasible : the political film in a depoliticized world / João Luiz Vieira -- It's all Brazil / Amir Labaki -- A cinema of conversation -- Eduardo Coutinho's Santo Forte and Babilônia 2000 / Verónica Ferreira Dias -- The sertão and the favela in contemporary Brazilian film / Ivana Bentes -- The sertão in the Brazilian imaginary at the end of the millennium / Luiz Zanin Oricchio -- Death on the beach -- the recycled utopia of Midnight / Lúcia Nagib -- Nelson Rodrigues in the 1990s : two recent screen adaptations / Stephanie Dennison -- An oblique gaze : irony and humour in Helvécio Ratton's Love & Co / Maria Esther Maciel -- Cabral and the Indians : filmic representations of Brazil's 500 years / Robert Stam -- For all and traditions of popular musical comedy / Lisa Shaw -- ImagiNation / José Carlos Avellar -- Then and now : cinema as history in the light of new media and new technologies / Laura Mulvey.