Portuguese language film resource at Dartmouth
- Portuguese language films at DartmouthPortuguese-language films at Dartmouth is a website to consult and contribute reviews, ratings, and detailed information about films currently held by the Dartmouth College Library. It serves as both a gateway to the library's collection of Portuguese language film, and as a resource for students, faculty, staff, and film aficionados worldwide to exchange information and opinion about these films.
Internet resource(s)
- Cinema do BrasilCurrently, their associates are film production companies, distributors, sales agents and festivals from different parts of Brazil. Their objective is to expand the international insertion of Brazilian cinema, stimulating the co-production and distribution of films in foreign territories, and expanding business possibilities for the Brazilian film industry.
Keeping up with the journal literature
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Introduction to Brazilian cinema
This page looks exclusively at Brazilian cinema. If you are interested in Portuguese film resources, please see the tab for Portugal.
Brazil’s first screening of moving images took place in Rio de Janeiro on 8 July 1896, and filmmaking equipment was introduced to the country two years later. The earliest films made locally were of ceremonies, festivals, and local scenes, though public film shows were not widespread at first because of lack of electricity. Nonetheless in the béla epoca (1908–12) over a hundred films a year were made, including the most popular film of the period, Paz de amor/Peace and Love (Alberto Botelho, 1910), and Antonio Leal’s true crime film Os estranguladores/The Stranglers (1908). Until 1912 Brazilian-made films dominated the local market, but the béla epoca came to an end as Brazilian films were forced out by imports from the USA and Europe, and local production was once again confined largely to actualities, with occasional exceptions such as the social drama Exemplo regenerador/Redeeming Example (Gilberto Ross and José Medina, 1919), a successful feature that paved the way for other films of the genre, including Fragmentos da vida/Fragments of Life (José Medina, 1929). Humberto Mauro, who was active in the 1920s and 1930s and directed a celebrated early sound film, Lábios sem beijos/Lips Without Kisses (1930), is widely regarded as the founding father of Brazil’s national cinema. ...
Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). Brazil, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 May. 2021
Searching the online catalog
You can use the subject headings below to find resources in the online catalog. The call number ranges are also included.
Please note: these are not the only call numbers, but they have the majority of items. These searches will also lead you to movie titles.
- motion pictures brazilCall number range PN 1993.5 .B6 on Baker Stacks Level 4.
- motion pictures latin americaCall number range PN 1993.5 .L3 on Baker Stacks Level 4.
Introductory reading(s)
Brazilian national cinema by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .B6 S45 2007ISBN: 9780415338165Brazilian cinema is one of the most influential national cinemas in Latin America and this wide-ranging study traces the evolution of Brazilian film from the silent era to the present day, including detailed studies of more recent international box-office hits, such as Central Station (1998) and City of God (2002). Brazilian National Cinema gives due importance to traditionally overlooked aspects of Brazilian cinema, such as popular genres, ranging from musical comedies (the chanchada) to soft-core porn films (the pornochanchada) and horror films, and also provides a fresh approach to the internationally acclaimed avant-garde Cinema Novo of the 1960s. ...- Cine iberoamericano: los desafíos del nuevo siglo byCall Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .L3 G458 2007ISBN: 9789879355411
- Dicionário de filmes brasileiros byCall Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .B6 S53 2002ISBN: 9788590059523
Enciclopédia do cinema brasileiro by
Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .B6 E53 2000ISBN: 9788573590937
Selected book titles
Brazilian women's filmmaking: from dictatorship to democracy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780252078736At most recent count, there are no fewer than forty-five women in Brazil directing or codirecting feature-length fiction or documentary films. In the early 1990s, women filmmakers in Brazil were credited for being at the forefront of the rebirth of filmmaking, or retomada, after the abolition of the state film agency and subsequent standstill of film production.
Brazil on screen: cinema novo, new cinema, utopia by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .B6 N35313 2007ISBN: 9781845113285Two periods of Brazilian film history are particularly notable for their artistic momentum: the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s and early '70s, and the film revival from the mid 1990s onwards. What makes them especially strong, this book argues, is their utopian impulse. By adopting Utopia as a theme, as well as a method of film analysis, Lucia Nagib unveils, organises and interprets a fascinating wealth of recurrent images, which are a bridge between a cinema strongly concerned with the national project and another informed by global culture. ...
Consuming visions: cinema, writing, and modernity in Rio de Janeiro by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .B6 C57 2012ISBN: 9780813932149Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization. Maite Conde places this relationship in the specific context of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, which underwent a radical transformation to a modern global city, becoming a concrete symbol of the country's broader processes of change and modernization. ...
Other library resource(s)
Brazilian cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286Studies of Brazilian cinema came to the fore in the 1960s and 1970s with the emergence of the avant-garde, politicized Cinema Novo, which dialogued with New Wave cinemas in Europe, particularly France, and in other parts of Latin America. Several landmark studies by scholars such as Ismail Xavier and Randal Johnson analyzed the movement in depth and remain key works. Since then, scholarship in both Portuguese and English has broadened its scope to embrace commercially oriented Brazilian films dating back to the early sound era, including popular genres (such as in the work of João Luiz Vieira, Stephanie Dennison, and Lisa Shaw), as well as the historical evolution of Brazilian cinema, and the relationship between the film industry and the state throughout the 20th century and into the new millennium. ...
Digitalia film library. Brazilian cinemaCall Number: Streaming videoDigitalia Film Library is another streaming service to which the Library subscribes. They have several collections in their library including one for Brazilian cinema.
Finding scholarly articles and journal title(s)
Articles and other writings about Brazilian cinema can be found in many publications. Our collection includes several journals which look exclusively at Portuguese language films. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.
Significação: revista de cultura audiovisual by Call Number: Electronic journalSignificação – Revista de Cultura Audiovisual publishes articles, essays, reviews, and interviews dedicated to studying the media and audiovisual processes and systems by the diverse practices and ideas entailed by their processes of reflection, creation, production, and dissemination. ...
Film & television literature index by Call Number: Electronic resourceUse this index to find articles about Brazilian cinema.
Screen studies collection by Call Number: Electronic resourceA comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
The web of science citation databases by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
Selected movie titles
For more Brazilian movie titles in the library's online catalog.
Brava gente Brasileira by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #2425Diego, a Portuguese cartographer, is sent to the New Word in 1778 to make a topographical survey of the Portuguese colonies in South America. The soldiers there have a hostile relationship with the native peoples (the Guaycuruan Indians) who are considered "uncivilized" and have "very strange" customs. While there, Diego is forced by Captain Pedro to participate in an act of violence against a helpless group of native women.
Cabra marcado para morrer = A man listed to dieCall Number: Jones Media DVD #19340In 1962, the Brazilian peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira was assassinated by two gunmen hired by local landowners. Teixeira's story was being filmed as a docu-drama with Teixeira's wife, Elizabeth, playing herself, but the 1964 military coup prevented the completion of the film.
Colegas by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #18780Three young people with Down syndrome decide to run away in search of three simple wishes: Stalone wants to see the sea, Aninha looks for a husband and Marcio needs to fly.
Jorge Mautner: o filho do holocausto by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #17514The Brazilian singer, violinist and writer Jorge Mautner, the son of holocaust survivors, is a something of a sensation in Brazil, having collaborated with Gaetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. This film documents his life from birth to age 17. His nanny introduced him to Candomblé; Mautner then became a precursor of the Tropicália, contributing to the construction of a Brasilian musical identity.- O fim e o princípio byCall Number: Jones Media DVD #8641Starting with nothing mapped out except their base hotel, a film crew enters the state of Paraíba in northeastern Brazil in search of interesting stories and people living in the isolated rural communities. The stories are mostly told by the elderly residents and reveal a world of memories, experiences, beliefs and folk practices that are disappearing out of the community collective memory.
Serra Pelada by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #18762The story of two friends who travel to a large gold mine, Serra Pelada (Bald Mountain) near the Amazon river.
