List of illustrations viii Notes on contributors xi Foreword xv Introduction xvii Acknowledgements xxvii Part one: Producing films in Brazil 1 A new policy for Brazilian Cinema JOSE ALVARO MOISES 3 2 The cinema that Brazil deserves CARLOS DIEGUES 23 Part two: Fiction film and social change 3 Brazilian Cinema in the 1990s: the unexpected encounter and the resentful character ISMAIL XAVIER 39 4 Humility, guilt and narcissism turned inside out in Brazil's film revival FERNAO PESSOA RAMOS 65 5 Chronically Unfeasible: the political film in a depoliticized world JOAO LUIZ VIEIRA 85 Part three: Documenting a country 6 It's all Brazil AMIR LABAKI 97 7 A cinema of conversation - Eduardo Coutinho's Santo Forte and Babilonia 2000 VERONICA FERREIRA DIAS 105 Part four: Sertao and favela: the eternal return 8 The sertao and the favela in contemporary Brazilian film IVANA BENTES 121 9 The sertao in the Brazilian imaginary at the end of the millennium LUIZ ZANIN ORICCHIO 139 10 Death on the beach - the recycled utopia of Midnight LUCIA NAGIB 157 Part five: Screen adaptations 11 Nelson Rodrigues in the 1990s: two recent screen adaptations STEPHANIE DENNISON 175 12 An oblique gaze: irony and humour in Helvecio Ratton's Love & Co MARIA ESTHER MACIEL 193 Part six: History and film history 13 Cabral and the Indians: filmic representations of Brazil's 500 years ROBERT STAM 205 14 For all and traditions of popular musical comedy LISA SHAW 229 15 ImagiNation JOSE CARLOS AVELLAR 245 Part seven: Epilogue 16 Then and now: cinema as history in the light of new media and new technologies LAURA MULVEY 261 Index 271