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Consuming Visions
In an original and ambitious exploration of the relationship between cinema and writing in early 20th-c. Brazil, Maite Conde shows how the broader global culture and consumer market opened up by film not only modernized literary production but also altered the very lives and everyday urban experiences of the population.
Consuming Visionsexplores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization. Maite Conde places this relationship in the specific context of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, which underwent a radical transformation to a modern global city, becoming a concrete symbol of the country's broader processes of change and modernization. Analyzing an array of literary texts, from journalistic essays and popular women's novels to anarchist treatises and vaudeville plays, the author shows how the writers' encounters with the cinema were consistent with the significant changes taking place in the city.
The arrival and initial development of the cinema in Brazil were part of the new urban landscape in which early Brazilian movies not only articulated the processes of the city's modernization but also enabled new urban spectators-women, immigrants, a new working class, and a recently liberated slave population-to see, believe in, and participate in its future. In the process, these early movies challenged the power of the written word and of Brazilian writers, threatening the hegemonic function of writing that had traditionally forged the contours of the nation's cultural life. An emerging market of consumers of the new cultural phenomena-popular theater, the department store, the factory, illustrated magazines-reflected changes that not only modernized literary production but also altered the very life and everyday urban experiences of the population.Consuming Visionsis an ambitious and engaging examination of the ways in which mass culture can become an agent of intellectual and aesthetic transformation.
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Ghettourism and Voyeurism, or Challenging Stereotypes and Raising Consciousness? Literary and Non-literary Forays into the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
This article will consider literary representations of the poorest parts of Rio de Janeiro and the ways they are romanticised or demonised according to the writer's agenda and the target audience. The growth in favela tours and hostels seems to indicate a voyeuristic interest in the poverty and danger represented in the images of Brazil that reach outside the country. Certainly, the number and variety of descriptions of favelas range from the poetic to the horrified, but all of them testify to the fascination these settlements exercise on the outsider. Travel writing, as well as investigative journalistic accounts (both fictional and factual), will be analysed, and references made to literature and film. Of particular interest are the ways in which poverty is 'performed' for the reader/spectator of literary texts, as well as the performance undertaken by the traveller/researcher/narrator in travel and scientific literature about the favelas.
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Between Imaginative and Corporeal Slum Tour Vocabularies of Favela Tourism in City of God
The paper examines the impact of cinematic representations of impoverished areas of Rio de Janeiro in the film City of God on the growth of the demand for favela tours in this city. In the first two parts, I describe postmodern changes in culture, society and economy and theoretical explanations of production and consumption of tourist attractions. In the third part, I define contemporary practices of slum tourism and examine three examples of convergence of 'literal versus literary' and visual slumming. In the last part, I analyse the narratives of City of God movie, taking into consideration the film-making process.
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Opening the Cabaret America Allegory: Hemispheric Politics, Performance, and Utopia in \Flying Down to Rio\
This essay examines the Carioca song-and-dance scene that lies at the narrative center of the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio in light of current theories of identity performance and performativity. Produced by RKO at a time when the studio became the meeting point of U.S. political and industrial interests, Flying represents a seminal moment in the cinematic representation of intercultural relations in the Americas. Its use of music and dance to articulate an inter-American utopia based on spectacle and entertainment ushered in the depiction of Latin American identity as an always evolving performance. Flying established a template for the representation of hemispheric relations that has been followed by numerous films produced not only in Hollywood but also in Latin America. From its position at the onset of the Good Neighbor policy, the scene becomes a historic record of the pivotal role that the construction of Latino and Latin American identities occupies in the articulation of racialist discourses in the United States.
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WHERE EVEN THE GOOD ARE BAD
Padilha, whose Emmy-award-winning 2002 documentary Bus 174 (Onibus 174), told the story of the violent hijacking of a bus in an upper-class Rio neighbourhood in July 2000, bristles at the suggestion that he is somehow condoning police violence with Elite Squad, co-produced by Harvey Weinstein's company (it is scheduled for a North American release this month and will also be featured in competition at the Berlin film festival in February). Elite Squad shows the point of view of a police officer in the BOPE, said Padilha, 41- I spoke to many police officers and psychiatrists to understand how a military police officer understands the world.
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