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Herrera, Juan Carlos Arias.

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Transformations of a Hungry Cinema: Images and Visibility of Hunger in Brazilian Cinema 1960s-2000s.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transformations of a Hungry Cinema: Images and Visibility of Hunger in Brazilian Cinema 1960s-2000s./
Author:	Herrera, Juan Carlos Arias.
Description:	293 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-08A(E).
Subject:	Film studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10089624
ISBN:	9781339594316

Transformations of a Hungry Cinema: Images and Visibility of Hunger in Brazilian Cinema 1960s-2000s.
Herrera, Juan Carlos Arias.

Transformations of a Hungry Cinema: Images and Visibility of Hunger in Brazilian Cinema 1960s-2000s. - 293 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2015.

This dissertation analyzes the visibility of hunger in film---from the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s to contemporary productions. It follows the discursive transformations of hunger as a key trope in the development of Brazilian cinema, highlighting hunger's role as a central motif---not only as the subject of specific films, but also as a place of reflection on the processes of the representation of marginality. I call hunger a trope to stress that it has not simply been the topic of films, nor an ethereal metaphor to rhetorically describe a socially committed cinema. Instead, the term hunger delineates a complex semantic field that includes several discursive strategies and artistic/political practices: it is a concept as well as a metaphor, a material reality, and an aesthetic principle.

ISBN: 9781339594316Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122736
Film studies.

Transformations of a Hungry Cinema: Images and Visibility of Hunger in Brazilian Cinema 1960s-2000s.
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