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Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
Darlene J. Sadlier (Author)
9780252071126
Paperback / softback, published 12 March 2003
200 pages
21 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.2 kg
"An important contribution to the better understanding of Brazilian issues in North America, and it is also an important source for anyone interested in world cinematography."--Labour “An absolutely enjoyable and enlightening read. Through excellent contextualization and deft use of critical sources, Sadlier offers a series of cogent and insightful views of one of Brazil’s most important contemporary film auteurs.”--Marvin D’Lugo, author of The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing and Guide to the Cinema of Spain
Nelson Pereira dos Santos is the first book in English to provide a full critical discussion of the films of Latin America’s most important living director. A leader of the Cinema Novo movement, dos Santos is responsible for some of Brazil’s most socially important and artistically engaging movies. Through a discussion of his films, Darlene J. Sadlier chronicles the filmmaker's epic career--his leftist-committed cinema, his concern with the national and the popular, his chameleon style, and his links to canonical Brazilian literature. She charts his moves from neo-realism to Godardian experimentation to a kind of popular realism and includes two highly informative interviews that reveal dos Santos’s cultural, intellectual, and philosophical formation.