Antônio Márcio da Silva currently teaches at the University of Surrey, UK. His publications include The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema: Challenging Hollywood Norms (Palgrave 2014), contributions to the edited collections Directory of World Cinema: Brazil and World Film Locations: São Paulo and a number of articles.Mariana Cunha is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, where she is currently developing a research project on the relationship between landscape and embodiment in contemporary world cinema. She has taught Brazilian studies at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Oxford, UK.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Tikmũ’ũn’s Caterpillar-Cinema: Off-screen Space and Cosmopolitics in Amerindian Films.- Chapter 3: The Reterritorializations of Urban Space in Brazilian Cinema.- Chapter 4: Mapping from the Margins: The Films of Beto Brant.- Chapter 5: Bodies in Landscape: The Scientist’s Presence in Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo and Ventos de agosto.- Chapter 6: Intensive Spatium and the Construction of Child Subjectivities in Brazilian Cinema.- Chapter 7: Insolação: Subjective Perception of an Urban Utopia through the Lens of Love and Loss.- Chapter 8: Astral Cities, New Selves: Utopian Subjectivities in Nosso Lar and Branco sai, preto fica.- Chapter 9: Underneath the Surface, Embodied on Screen: Memory and Social Conflict in São Paulo’s Cityscape.- Chapter 10: The Space of Queer Masculinities in Karim Aïnouz’s Praia do Futuro.- Chapter 11: Water and Queer Intimacy.- Chapter 12: ‘Casa grande & senzala’: Domestic Space and Class Conflict in Casa grande and Que horas ela volta?.- Chapter 13: O som ao redor: Aural Space, Surveillance, and Class Struggle.

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