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From its inception, Brazilian cinema has combined extra-filmic artistic and cultural forms, both local and imported, resulting in an original aesthetic blend. Theatre, dance, music, circus, radio, television and the plastic arts left a distinctive mark on Brazilian cinema's poetics and politics, as can be observed in a host of fascinating phenomena analysed in this book, including: the film prologues that connected the screen to the stage in the 1920s; the chanchada musical comedies, inflected by vaudeville theatre and the radio; the manguebeat and �rido movie movements that blurred the boundaries between music and film; and contemporary multimedia installations and other experiments. By adopting intermediality as a historiographic method, this book reconstructs the history and cultural wealth behind filmic expressions in Brazilian cinema.

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L�cia Nagib is Professor of Film at the University of Reading. Her many books include Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (2020), World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (2011) and Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia (2007). She is the co-director with Samuel Paiva of the award-winning documentary Passages. She is editor, with Julian Ross, of the World Cinema series and, with Tiago de Luca, of the Film Thinks series. Luciana Corr�a de Ara�jo is Assistant Professor at the Federal University of S�o Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil. She is the author of A cr�nica de cinema no Recife dos anos 50 (1997) and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade: primeiros tempos (2013) and co-editor of Estudos de cinema e audiovisual Socine Estadual S�o Paulo (2012).

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