Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Author: Darlene J. Sadlier
A cinema of the people
Paper – $22
978-0-252-07112-6
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/2003
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About the Book

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.

About the Author

Darlene J. Sadlier is a professor emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University and the author of Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present.

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Reviews

"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

Blurbs

“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