Allegories Of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema
Allegories Of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema
by Ismail Xavier
University of Minnesota Press, 1997
Paper: 978-0-8166-2677-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-2676-2 | eISBN: 978-0-8166-8682-7
Library of Congress Classification PN1993.5.B6X3813 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43750981
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- I
- The Teleology of History
- 1
- Black God, White Devil: Allegory and Prophecy
- II
- The Crisis of Teleology
- 2
- Land in Anguish: Allegory and Agony
- 3
- Red Light Bandit: Allegory and Irony
- 4
- The Levels of Incoherence; or, The Mirage of the Nation as Subject
- III
- Allegory and Melancholy
- 5
- Macunaíma: The Delusions of Eternal Childhood
- 6
- Antônio das Mortes: Myth and the Simulacrum in the Crisis of Revolution
- IV
- Allegory and Deconstruction
- 7
- The Angel Is Born: The Song of Exile
- 8
- Killed the Family and Went to the Movies: The Ersatz Carnival
- 9
- Bang Bang: Passage, Not Destination
- V
- Further Developments
- 10
- Trends of Allegory in the 1970s