Remaking Brazil: Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema (Iberian and Latin American Studies)

This book offers to the English reader, for the first time, an overarching picture of Brazil’s thriving contemporary film production. Heise has devised an insightful method to tackle its complexity, by focusing on the recurrent trope of brasilidade, that is, the idea of national belonging. The categories she establishes in order to organise her vast material – celebratory, reformist, oppositional and alternative are bound to become common currency among film scholars. Bold in its assertions and unafraid of canonical theories, Remaking Brazil is a compelling testament to the resilience of the nation in the transnational era. –Professor Lúcia Nagib, Centenary Professor of World Cinemas, University of Leeds

This book offers to the English reader, for the first time, an overarching picture of Brazil’s thriving contemporary film production. Heise has devised an insightful method to tackle its complexity, by focusing on the recurrent trope of brasilidade, that is, the idea of national belonging. The categories she establishes in order to organise her vast material – celebratory, reformist, oppositional and alternative are bound to become common currency among film scholars. Bold in its assertions and unafraid of canonical theories, Remaking Brazil is a compelling testament to the resilience of the nation in the transnational era. –Professor Lúcia Nagib, Centenary Professor of World Cinemas, University of Leeds