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Brazilian Theater, 1970-2010
How did Brazilian theater survive under the military dictatorship of 1964-1985? How did it change once the regime was over? This collection of new essays is the first to cover Brazilian theater during this period. Brazilian scholars and artists discuss the history of a theater community that not only resisted the regime but reinvented itself and continued to develop more sophisticated forms of expression even in the face of competition from television and other media. The contributors recount the struggle to stage meaningful plays at a time when some artists and intellectuals were exiled, others imprisoned, tortured or killed. With the return of democracy other important issues arose: how to ensure space for different practices and for regional theater, and how to continue producing international plays that could be meaningful for a Brazilian audience.
Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies," writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen Brazilian films made (with one exception) after the 1985 return to constitutional democracy and elimination of censorship to show how these issues arise from and comment on the sociohistorical reality of contemporary Brazilian society. Foster organizes his study around three broad themes: construction of masculinity, constructions of feminine and feminist identities, and same-sex positionings and social power. Within his discussions of individual films ranging from Jorge um brasileiro to A hora da estrela to Beijo no asfalto, he offers new ways of understanding national ideals and stereotypes, sexual dissidence (homoeroticism and transgenderism), heroic models, U.S./Brazilian relations, revolutionary struggle, and human rights violations. As the first study of Brazilian cinematic representations of gender ideology in English or Portuguese, this book will be important reading in film and cultural studies.
Staging Resistance
Fresh perspectives on political theater and its essential contribution to contemporary culture. Focused studies of individual plays complement broad-based discussions of the place of theater in a radically democratic society. This consistently challenging collection describes the art of change confronting the actual processes of change. 17 photos.
Performances culturais
Este livro é o resultado de um esforço coletivo e inter e multidisciplinar para debater, sob diversas perspectivas, o conceito de performance. As discussões desta coletânea se apresentam advindas dos estudos da arte, da antropologia, da linguística, da história, dos estudos culturais.
Creative Involution
Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21st centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic ex
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Vianinha no Centro Popular de Cultura (CPC da UNE): nacionalismo e militância política em “Brasil: versão brasileira” (1962)
Nas décadas de 1950 e 1960, viveu-se no Brasil um momento de intensificação da arte engajada, marcado por um contexto no qual muitos artistas, no ímpeto de transformação da sociedade, incorporaram em suas obras, suas pretensões políticas. Essa concepção fez parte de um período onde as ideias de uma “cultura revolucionária” promoveram um discurso de que um país como o Brasil era capaz de produzir obras com caráter “nacional” e “popular”, a fim de superar seu subdesenvolvimento. Tais manifestações contribuíram para a estruturação de um meio de produção cultural definido pelo engajamento artístico. Este livro discute as críticas e autocríticas produzidas a um...
