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Tropical Multiculturalism Robert Stam

Tropical Multiculturalism By Robert Stam

Tropical Multiculturalism by Robert Stam


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Provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. This title 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.

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Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture by Robert Stam

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 Brazilian fictional feature film, Robert Stam puts Brazilian culture at the center 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 anti-racist agenda of Orson Welless never-released Brazilian film Its All True, the international background behind Black Orpheus, the career of Grande Otelo (Brazils 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. Tropical Multiculturalism is 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 theorized analysis of racialized representations.

Tropical Multiculturalism Reviews

"Tropical Multiculturalism establishes Robert Stam as the foremost authority on the intersection of race, culture, and film in Brazil. Some think of blacks in Brazilian film as samba and sound but Stam liberates us all with a gorgeously argued relational text that is destined to become a classic in film criticism."Robert Farris Thompson, Yale University
"With Tropical Multiculturalism, Robert Stamone of the most sophisticated theorists of contemporary cultural representationsprovides a much needed, historicized model for the analysis of non-European and Afro-diasporic cinemas and cultures."Monthia Diawara, New York University

About Robert Stam

Robert Stam is Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is the author of Subversive Pleasures and coauthor of Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, and Brazilian Cinema.

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GOR009273648
9780822320487
0822320487
Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture by Robert Stam
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Duke University Press
1997-12-17
432
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