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__Consuming Visions__ explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization. Maite Conde places this relationship in the specific context of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, which underwent a radical transformation to a modern global city, becoming a concrete symbol of the country's broader processes of change and modernization. Analyzing an array of literary texts, from journalistic essays and popular women's novels to anarchist treatises and vaudeville plays, the author shows how the writers' encounters with the cinema were consistent with the significant changes taking place in the city. The arrival and initial development of the cinema in Brazil were part of the new urban landscape in which early Brazilian movies not only articulated the processes of the city's modernization but also enabled new urban spectators―women, immigrants, a new working class, and a recently liberated slave population―to see, believe in, and participate in its future. In the process, these early movies challenged the power of the written word and of Br

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Author

Maite Conde; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813932149

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism