On Cinema
Glauber Rocha(Author)
Ismail Xavier(Editor)
I.B. Tauris (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-78076-704-8 (ISBN)
Description
Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes. Less well-known outside Brazil is that he was also a brilliant film critic and innovative thinker on world cinema. On Cinema brings together for the first time in the English language a comprehensive selection of Rocha's film writings, revealing for the first time to English-speaking readers the full critical power, inventiveness and vision of a great filmmaker. Rocha's writings, endowed with critical verve and humour, give insights into key moments of film history, as well as the politics of world cinema. Here he fearlessly confronts the film establishment and debates with a host of sacred filmmakers of the world pantheon.
Included is Rocha's early criticism of Brazilian films, landmark manifestos such as 'Aesthetics of Hunger' and 'Aesthetics of Dream', writings about the development of Cinema Novo, and his international film criticism, including pieces on Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, James Dean, David Lean, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini. The publication of On Cinema, edited by film scholar Ismail Xavier and in expert translation, is an international publishing event.
Included is Rocha's early criticism of Brazilian films, landmark manifestos such as 'Aesthetics of Hunger' and 'Aesthetics of Dream', writings about the development of Cinema Novo, and his international film criticism, including pieces on Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, James Dean, David Lean, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini. The publication of On Cinema, edited by film scholar Ismail Xavier and in expert translation, is an international publishing event.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
36 integrated b/w
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78076-704-8 (9781780767048)
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Persons
Glauber Rocha (1939-1981) is Brazil's most important filmmaker and founder of the 1960s &'70s Cinema Novo movement. His films are landmarks of Brazilian and world film history. He was also a prolific writer and film critic, whose critical thought made a decisive contribution to the notion of Third Cinema. Ismail Xavier is Professor of Film at the University of Sao Paulo. His book Allegories of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema marks a milestone in Brazilian cinema studies.
Author
Editor
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Associate editor
Translation
University of Leeds, UK
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil