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Anamnesis of Cabeças Cortadas

This essay gathers personal reminiscences and comments some critical texts about Cabezas Cortadas (1970), one of the least known films by Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha.; Reunindo reminiscências pessoais e exegese crítica, este ensaio recupera a trajetória de exibição de Cabeças Cortadas (1970), um dos filmes menos conhecidos de Glauber Rocha.

(Re) Discovery of Brazil

As we all learned in Brazilian schools, Portuguese navigators arrived in Brazil in 1500. Since then, this event has been the subject of controversies (coincidence? Navigators' intentions?) And disputes (who would have preceded them? French? Africans?). Above the controversy, what is still being taught is that the fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral made Portugal's first official contact with the new land at...

Carmen Miranda’s white dress: ethnicity, syncretism and subaltern sexualities i...

This essay calls for a reassessment of Carmen Miranda's work in Hollywood. Her singing and dancing can reveal unexpected ethnic and cultural alignments. The focus here is on the costumes she designed for Springtime in the Rockies, a Fox musical in which Brazilian as well as Native American cultural references are made explicit in Miranda's performance.; http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2006n51p93This essay c...

Cultura midiática e grupos sociais: possibilidades de um campo de estudos