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    Tropical Multiculturalism A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture

    Duke University Press
    Tropical Multiculturalism provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. Focusing on representations of multicultural themes involving Euro- and Afro-Brazilians, other immigrants, and indigenous peoples in the rich tradition of the Brazilian fictional feature film, Robert Stam puts Brazilian culture at the centre of a wide-ranging analysis of race, representation, history, and film. Drawing parallels between the histories of colonialism, slavery, and immigration in Brazil and the United States, he also contends that questions of ethnic and racial representations are best viewed within the larger context of a comparative analysis of racially plural societies. Stam examines the broad historical and cultural links that connect Brazil and the United States before considering multicultural imagery in Brazilian film as it has changed from the silent era to the present. His analysis moves through the comic chanchadas of the 1930s and 1940s, to the Hollywood-style films from Sao Paulo in the 1950s, and the diverse phases of Cinema Novo beginning in the 1960s. He explores a wealth of subjects, including the submerged "blackness" of Carmen Miranda, the antiracist agenda of Orson Welles' never-released Brazilian film It's All True, the international background behind Black Orpheus, the career of Grande Otelo - Brazil's greatest black film star, the allegorical "cannibalistic" films like How Tasty Was My Frenchman, and "indigenous media" - the attempt by Brazilian "indians" to use camcorders and VCRs for their own cultural and political purposes. Simultaneously a history of Brazilian cinema from the standpoint of race, a history of Brazil itself through its cinematic representations, a comparative study of racial formations in Brazil and the United States, and a theorised analysis of racialised representations, Tropical Multiculturalism will be of great use to those involved in studies of race, the African diaspora, and Latin American culture and history, as well as those working in comparative film studies.

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