Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... film , and film metaphors became a staple ( it was equated in the popular imagination with modernity , along with the Model T Ford ) of the avant - garde literary movement of the 1920s and 1930s ( modernismo ) . In 1911 , Brazilians ...
... film by Alex Viany in 1953 , Needle in the Haystack ( Agulha no Palheiro ) . Nelson Pereira dos Santos was an assistant director for the film , which depicted everyday Brazilians . He went on to make a breakthrough film , Rio 40 Degrees ...
... film follows the disastrous adventures of a group of street children who escape from a reformatory . The boys become involved with Sueli , a prostitute in Rio , who becomes the lover of one of the boys and a substitute mother figure to ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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