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OverviewConsuming Visions explores 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 modernisation. 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 modernisation. Analysing 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 modernisation 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 theatre, the department store, the factory, illustrated magazines - reflected changes that not only modernised literary production but also altered the very life and everyday urban experiences of the population. Consuming Visions is an ambitious and engaging examination of the ways in which mass culture can become an agent of intellectual and aesthetic transformation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maite CondePublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.456kg ISBN: 9780813932132ISBN 10: 0813932130 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 06 December 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsConde has astutely identified a gap in existing literature, namely, a study of the relationship between pre-modernist writers of 'mass literature' and film. Highly original and likely to prompt new ways of thinking about film culture.--Lisa Shaw, University of Liverpool <p>Conde has astutely identified a gap in existing literature, namely, a study of the relationship between pre-modernist writers of 'massliterature' and film. Highly original and likely to prompt new ways of thinkingabout film culture.--Lisa Shaw, University of Liverpool Author InformationMaite Conde is a Research Fellow at the Brazil Institute at King's College, University of London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |