About the seminar
In this talk, Maite Conde will discuss her new book 'Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil'. She will map how early cinema has previously been theorised in Brazil, revealing its links to utopian discourses that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s, discourses that were connected to the emergence of a new cinema. Moving away from these historical theories, she will chart a ‘new historical’ landscape of early film culture – production, reception and exhibition – exploring its links to contemporary intertexts and paratexts that allow us to understand ways in which the cinematic medium was tied to the invention of modern life in Brazil.
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Dr Maite Conde is University Lecturer in Brazilian Culture at the University of Cambridge, England and Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. She has published various essays in books and journals on Brazilian literature, cinema and politics. She is the author of the books 'Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro' (2012) and 'Foundational Films. Early cinema and modernity in Brazil' (2018) and editor of 'Between Conformity and Resistance: Essays on Politics, Culture and the State by Marilena Chaui' (2011), 'Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes: on Brazilian and world cinema' (2018) and the forthcoming collection 'Manifesting Democracy? Urban protests and the politics of representation in Brazil 2013 and beyond' (2019).
'Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil' is available through Online Access at the University of Edinburgh Main Library.
This event will be in English and is co-sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies (CCLAS). It is free to attend and you don't have to book. Everyone welcome.
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