Question for "Cinema: A Trajectory Within Underdevelopment"
Describe the monumental evolution of Brazilian cinema that occurred in the 1940’s. How did this movement relate to foreign markets within and outside of Brazil? How did this change in Brazilian cinema mark a break from the “colonizer”?
posted by Maura at
5:51 PM
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The films coming out of Brazil in the 1940's added ephemeral carioca features in the form of anecdotes and manners of speech, though and behavior, a continuous flow that the chanchada crystallized even more effectively than caricature or variety theater. Both films from Brazil in 1940 and foreign market films, each shared a relationship with the viewer, but the relationship shared in Brazilian 1940's cinema was much stronger than that of foreign product. The uninterrupted production nearly 20 years of musical films and chanchadas occurred independent of the tastes of the colonizer contrary to foreign films. These films coming out of Brazil at this time suggested a struggle of the colonized against the colonizer, rather than American foreign film, which provided a link to the colonized. The Brazilian colonized were breaking free from the colonizers.
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