Remaking Brazil

Dr. Tatiana Signorelli Heise is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Manchester University.

• Introduction PART 1: The Making of Brazilian National Identity Chapter 1: Forging the Nation Chapter 2: Modernity, Exclusion and Inclusion Chapter 3: The Authoritarian State and Nation Building Chapter 4: Resisting the Dominant Ideology PART 2: Projected Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema Chapter 5: Celebration: The Brazilian Way of Being Chapter 6: Reform: The Land of Samba, Football and Inequality Chapter 7: Resistance: Asserting Alternative Identities Chapter 8: Opposition: Visions of Disorder (a sample of this chapter is provided)

This book offers to the English reader, for the first time, an overarching picture of Brazil's thriving contemporary film production. Heise has devised an insightful method to tackle its complexity, by focusing on the recurrent trope of brasilidade, that is, the idea of national belonging. The categories she establishes in order to organise her vast material - 'celebratory', 'reformist', 'oppositional' and 'alternative' - are bound to become common currency among film scholars. Bold in its assertions and unafraid of canonical theories, Remaking Brazil is a compelling testament to the resilience of the nation in the transnational era.'