Foundational Films

Maite Conde is University Lecturer in Brazilian Culture at the University of Cambridge, England and Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. She is author of Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro.  

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Modern Foundations of Brazilian Cinema

Part I. Locating the Belle Epoque of Brazilian Cinema
1. Early Cinema and National Identity in Brazil: Mapping Out a Space of Analysis
2. Cinematic Vistas of Rio de Janeiro’s Worldly Modernity
3. Alternative Urban Projections in Early Narrative Films

Part II. Hollywood Revisions
4. Film and Fandom in Cinearte Magazine
5. Beyond Hollywood: Reading Slave Relations in Humberto Mauro’s Lost Treasure (1927)

Part III. The Rondon Commission: Producing New Visions of the Amazon
6. Picturing the Tropics: Forging a National Territory through Photography and Film
7. The Expedition Films of Major Luiz Thomaz Reis

Part IV. Modernism and the Movies
8. Modernismo’s Literary Engagements with Film
9. The Cine-Poetry of Mário Peixoto’s Limite
10. Fabricating Discipline and Progress in São Paulo, Symphony of a Metropolis

Postscript: Toward New Cinematic Foundations
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index