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Consuming visions

Conde, Maite, 1971-

Consuming visions cinema, writing, and modernity in Rio de Janeiro / [electronic resource] : Maite Conde. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 227 p. :) ill. ; - New world studies . - New World studies. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Introduction -- Writers, film, and the new visual landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Documenting new urban experiences: the cinematic work of the Crônica -- Comic visions of the new city: writers and film production during the Belle Époque of Brazilian cinema -- Writers, film, and alternative visions of Rio de Janeiro. Envisioning a new political landscape: Martin Fontes's anarchist flirtation with film -- Women, Rio's modernity, and film's visual pleasures: Benjamin Costallat's Mademoiselle Cinema -- Conclusion. Reviving the lettered city.

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Modernism (Literature)--Brazil.
Motion pictures in literature.
Brazilian literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Motion pictures and literature--Brazil.
Motion pictures--History--Brazil--20th century.


Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--In literature.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--In motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1993.5.B6 / C57 2012

791.430981