The Femme Fatale in Brazilian Cinema Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 01 May 2014

In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 45,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2014

In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
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• Release Date : 31 October 2012

This text focuses on women's film production in Brazil from the mid-1970s to the current era. Marsh explains how women's filmmaking contributed to the reformulation of sexual, cultural, and

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 06 July 2017

The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the

• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• File Size : 47,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 December 2016

Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in “star studies,” Brazilian film has received comparatively little attention. As this volume demonstrates, however, the richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 12 August 2017

This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 20 February 2020

Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
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• Release Date : 09 June 1995

From the documentary to the cinema novo and cannibalism, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vidas Secas to music in the films of Glauber Rocha, this third, revised edition is a

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 11 September 2018

This edited collection explores how contemporary Latin American cinema has dealt with and represented issues of human rights, moving beyond many of the recurring topics for Latin American films. Through

• Publisher : Wayne State University Press
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• Release Date : 08 February 2022

Puts forward a new, provocative history of queer cinema in Brazil.