TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conde,Maite
TI  - Foundational films: early cinema and modernity in Brazil 
SN  - 9780520964884
AV  - PN1993 .F686 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Brazil
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Silent films
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Includes filmography, bibliographical references, and index; Introduction : the modern foundations of Brazilian cinema --; Locating Brazil's early cinema. Early cinema and national identity ; mapping out a space of analysis ; cinematic vistas of Rio de Janeiro's worldly modernity ; alternative urban projections in early narrative films --; Hollywood revisions. Film and fandom in Cinearte Magazine ; Beyond Hollywood : reading slave relations in Lost treasure --; The Rondon Commission : producing new visions of the Amazon. Picturing the tropics ; forging a national territory through photography and film ; the expedition films of Major Luiz Thomas Reis --; Modernism and the movies. Modernismo's literary engagements with film ; the cine-poetry of Mário Peixoto's Limite ; fabricating a city of discipline and order in São Paulo : symphony of a metropolis --; Postscript: towards new cinematic foundations; 2; b
N2  - "In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema. Focusing on silent film released during the First Republic (1889-1930), Foundational films explores how the medium became implicated in a larger project to transform Brazil into a modern nation. Analyzing an array of cinematic forms, from depictions of contemporary life, to fan magazines, to experimental avant-garde productions, Conde demonstrates the distinct ways in which Brazil's early film culture helped to project a new image of the country"--Provided by publisher
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