Mais perto do samba do que da valsa: Glauber Rocha e o Cinema Novo

• Authors: Jolanta Rękawek

Title variants

EN

CLOSER TO SAMBA THAN TO WALTZ: GLAUBER ROCHA AND THE NEW CINEMA

• Languages of publication: PT

Abstracts

EN

The artistic legacy of Glauber Rocha is an essential point of reference for any analysis of contemporary Brazilian culture. With a deep commitment to the qualitative transformation of Brazilian society, this artist was at the forefront of the Brazilian cinematic avant-garde of the 1950s-60s, which – inspired by the wave of new cinema around the world – proposed a new Brazilian cinema, decolonized and sovereign. With the benefit of technological advances these film-makers changed cinematic language, filming Brazil with a violent aesthetic free of shame, in which the common citizen was able to see his own face, feel his own pain and hear his own music. The aesthetic of hunger, articulated by Glauber Rocha as a legitimate ideology, was not limited to artistic ends only, but intended to promote a public debate in which Brazilian realities would be debated as a problem of politics. In the same way that the Cinema Novo remained an uncompleted phenomenon, its formulations suspended, the debate inspired by Glauber Rocha’s legacy has still to take place.

Keywords

EN

NEW CINEMA; GLAUBER ROCHA; AESTHETIC OF HUNGER

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Studia Iberystyczne
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 327-339

Contributors

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Jolanta Rękawek

• Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Av. Transnordestina, S/N, Bairro: Novo Horizonte, 44.036-900 Feira de Santana, BRAZIL