Remaking Brazil

Remaking Brazil
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Publisher : University of Wales Press
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-13 : 9780708325162
ISBN-10 : 0708325165
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Book Synopsis Remaking Brazil by : Tatiana Signorelli Heise

Download or read book Remaking Brazil written by Tatiana Signorelli Heise and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity. Focusing on the idea of the nation as an 'imagined community', the author discuss the various ways in which dominant ideas about brasilidade (Brazilian national consciousness) are dramatised, supported or attacked in contemporary fiction and documentary films.


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