Overview

Photography and documentary film in the making of modern Brazil provides a major contribution to the field of visual culture through a study of still and moving images of Brazil in the first four decades of the twentieth century, when the camera played a key role in making Brazilian peoples and places visible to a variety of audiences. The book explores what is distinctive about the visual representation of Brazil in an era of modernisation, also attending to the significance of the different technical properties of film and photography for the writing of new histories of visual technologies. It offers new insights into the work of key writers, photographers, anthropologists and filmmakers, including Claude Levi-Strauss, Mario de Andrade, Silvino Santos and Aloha Baker. Unearthing a wealth of materials from archives in the USA, Britain, and Brazil, the book seeks to contribute to the postcolonial theoretical project of pinpointing locally distinctive histories of visual technologies and practices. -- .

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Author:   Luciana Martins ,  Amelia Jones ,  Marsha Meskimmon ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780719089916

ISBN 10:   0719089913
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   31 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Silvino Santos: documenting modern Brazil 3. Filming terra incognita: the exploration of the Amazon 4. Picturing a moral geography: Kenneth Grubb in Brazil 5. Coffee, modernity and the Brazilian image world 6. Mario de Andrade: photographic experiment and living heritage 7. Framing the Bororo: Claude Levi-Strauss and Aloha Baker in Mato Grosso 8. Epilogue: from the Great Coffee Nation to the Obra Getuliana Index -- .

Reviews

Over one hundred illustrations, the artful deployment of which the design team at Manchester University Press deserves credit, adorn the undertaking from beginning to end, lending the narrative (most appropriately) a rich, visual texture. Though her sweep is vast, there is commendable balance between the big picture and attention to detail, with six informative chapters organized around a sequence of connected case studies -- W.George Lovell. Society and Space

Author Information

Luciana Martins is Senior Lecturer in Luso-Brazilian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London -- .

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