The New Brazilian Cinema

Lucia Nagib here presents the first comprehensive critical survey of Brazilian film production since the mid 1990s, which has become known as the 'Renaissance of Brazilian cinema'. Besides reflecting on the conditions that has made possible this recent boom, this book elaborates on the new aesthetic tendencies of recent productions, as well as their relationships to earlier traditions of Brazilian cinema. Internationally acclaimed films, such as 'Central Station', 'Seven Days in September' and 'Orpheus', are analysed alongside daringly experimental works, such as 'Chronically Unfeasible', 'Starry Sky' and 'Perfumed Ball'. The team of authors includes the leader of the new audio-visual policy, Jose Alvaro Moises; the celebrated film director Carlos Diegues; internationally reknowned scholars, such as Ismail Xavier, Robert Stam and Laura Mulvey; and some of Brazil's principal film critics, such as Luiz Zanin Oricchio and Amir Labaki.