Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes. Hitherto virtually unknown outside Brazil is that he was also a brilliant film critic and innovative thinker on world cinema. On Cinema brings together for the first time in the English language a comprehensive selection of Rocha's film writings, revealing for the first time to English-speaking readers the full critical power, inventiveness and vision of a great filmmaker. Rocha's writings, endowed with critical verve and humour, give insights into key moments of film history, as well as the politics of world cinema. Here he fearlessly confronts the film establishment and debates with a host of sacred filmmakers of the world pantheon. Included is Rocha's early criticism of Brazilian films, landmark manifestoes such as 'An Aesthetics of Hunger' and 'An Aesthetics of Dreams', articles about the development of Cinema Novo, and his international film criticism, including pieces on Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, James Dean, David Lean, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini. The publication of On Cinema, edited by film scholar Ismail Xavier and in expert translation, is an international publishing event.
Author(s): Glauber Rocha, Ismail Xavier
Series: The Tauris World Cinema Series
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 321
Tags: Brazilian Cinema, Glauber Rocha
Cover
......Page 1
Author Biography
......Page 2
Tauris World Cinema Series
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Preface and Acknowledgements by Lúcia Nagib......Page 11
Introduction by Ismail Xavier......Page 16
Glauber Rocha’s On Cinema......Page 18
Introduction......Page 28
Method......Page 30
Humberto Mauro and the Historical Situation......Page 34
The Cinema Process (1961)......Page 45
Barren Lives (Vidas secas) (1964)......Page 52
An Aesthetics of Hunger (1965)......Page 56
Revolution is an Aesthetics (1967)......Page 61
The Cinematographic Revolution (1967)......Page 63
Tricontinental (1967)......Page 66
Positif (1967)......Page 73
Cinema Novo and the Adventure of Creation (1968)......Page 90
Tropicalism, Anthropology, Myth, Ideography (1969)......Page 115
América Nuestra (1969)......Page 119
Discussion of the Concept of Aesthetics and its Political Function......Page 121
This Is How the Revolution in Cinema Is Made (1970)......Page 129
An Aesthetics of Dreams (1971)......Page 136
Chaplin......Page 141
Welles......Page 144
James Dean – Angel and Myth......Page 147
David Lean......Page 148
Juvenile Delinquency......Page 151
John Huston – Physical Technique and Aesthetic Technique......Page 157
Stanley Kubrick......Page 159
Western – Introduction to the Genre and to the Hero......Page 165
The Searchers......Page 167
The New Western......Page 169
The 12 Commandments of Our Lord Buñuel......Page 174
The Morality of a New Christ......Page 187
The Neorealism of Rossellini......Page 193
Filmic Dramaturgy: Visconti......Page 202
Cinema’s Form and Sense......Page 207
Visconti and the Nerves of Rocco......Page 208
Viscontian Baroque......Page 214
The Splendour of a God......Page 219
Antonioni......Page 224
Funeral Space......Page 226
Glauber Fellini......Page 229
Pasolini......Page 250
New Cinema in the World......Page 256
Alphaville......Page 267
Do You Like Jean-Luc Godard? (if not, you’re out)
......Page 272
Godardean......Page 280
Notes......Page 283
Index......Page 300
