Haunted Cinema of Pedro Costa

James Naremore is Chancellors' Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative Literature, and the Media School at Indiana University Bloomington. He is author of numerous books, among them, More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts; On Kubrick and Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge. He is editor (with Patrick M. Brantlinger) of Modernity and Mass Culture.Darlene J. Sadlier is Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of numerous books, most recently Memories of Underdevelopment; A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film: From Nationalism to Protest; and The Lilly Library from A to Z: Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection. She is editor and translator of One Hundred Years after Tomorrow: Brazilian Women's Fiction in the Twentieth Century.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Who Is He and What Is Cinema?Part I: Early FilmsO sangue (Blood, 1989)Casa de lava (Down to Earth, 1994)Part II: The Fontaínhas TrilogyOssos (Bones, 1997)No quarto da Vanda (In Vanda's Room, 2000)Juventude em marcha (Colossal Youth, 2006)Part III: After FontaínhasCavalo dinheiro (Horse Money, 2014)Vitalina Varela (2019)Part IV: DocumentariesOnde jaz o teu sorriso? (Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?, 2001)Ne change rien (Change Nothing, 2009)Part V: Exhibitions, Short Films, and a Work in ProgressFilmographyBibliographyIndex

"There is no one better than James Naremore, in collaboration here with Darlene J. Sadlier, to define and explore the enigmatic artistry of Pedro Costa, the neorealist Rembrandt of Portuguese and world cinema. The authors deliver elegant prose, dry wit, searching analysis of style and substance, and an unsurpassed command of film understanding." - Patrick McGilligan, author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light"In nuanced and richly informed analyses, James Naremore and Darlene J. Sadlier illuminate all aspects of Pedro Costa's films, proving especially insightful on atmosphere, performance, and gesture. As they write of Costa's Horse Money, the director's work has been 'more praised by critics than carefully described and analyzed.' This exhilarating book goes a long way toward correcting that imbalance." - Chris Fujiwara, author of Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall