Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema / / ed. by Tim Bergfelder, João Luiz Vieira, Lisa Shaw.
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 the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda. Among the studies assembled here are fascinatin...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- lllustrations
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Consuming visions: Female stars, the melindrosa and desires for a Brazilian film industry
- CHAPTER 2 A star system created by fans: Pernambucan cinema in the 1920s
- CHAPTER 3 A star in the spotlight: Carmen Santos and Brazilian cinema of the 1920s
- CHAPTER 4 Carmen Miranda: From national star to global brand
- CHAPTER 5 Cinelândia magazine and the creation of home-grown movie stars in the 1950s
- CHAPTER 6 Oscarito and Grande Otelo ‘The terrible twosome’
- CHAPTER 7 Eliane Lage: A falling star in the skies of the tropics
- CHAPTER 8 Radio stars on screen: Critiques of stardom in Moacyr Fenelon’s Tudo azul (1952)
- CHAPTER 9 Jece Valadão, the ‘charming crook’ A star image between tradition and modernity
- CHAPTER 10 José Mojica Marins versus Coffin Joe: Auteurism and stardom in Brazilian cinema
- CHAPTER 11 As loiras: Brazil’s screen blondes
- CHAPTER 12 A star is born: The rising profile of the non-professional actor in recent Brazilian cinema
- CHAPTER 13 The black body reframed: Lázaro Ramos and the performance of interracial love
- CHAPTER 14 Seu Jorge as a cross-media star: Between local authenticity and global appeal
- CHAPTER 15 Latin lover or Latin(o) loser? Rodrigo Santoro and the Hollywood stereotype
- Index