Question for Rocha, "The Esthetics of Hunger"
As presented in Glauber Rocha’s article, “An Esthetic of Hunger”, how is the plight of the Latin America depicted through Cinema Novo? How is this depiction received by European and foreign audiences? Describe the relationship between these two audiences and how that affects Cinema Novo.
posted by Maura at
3:58 PM
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The plight in Latin America was depicted through the themes of hunger as Rocha states "Cinema Novo has narrated, described, poeticized, discussed, analyzed, and stimulated the themes of hunger: characters eating dirt and roots, characters stealing to eat, characters killing to eat, characters fleeing to eat." Obviously Rocha, in his quote displayed in the article 'An Esthetic of Hunger,' says that the plight of Latin America is the their struggle to live in Latin America. Europeans have a bit of trouble interpreting the misery of Latin America, but when they do come to understand it, it understand it as 'a strange tropical surrealism.' For the Brazilian it is a 'national shame.' What the Brazilians and Europeans share in thought is that Cinema Novo is a phenomenon of new peoples EVERYWHERE and not a privilege of JUST Brazil.
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