Randal Jeffery Johnson

The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature

Brazilian Cinema

Manoel De Oliveira

Manoel De Oliveira

Brazilian Cinema

Cinema Novo X 5: Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film

Cinema Novo X 5: Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film

Free Exchange

Free Exchange

In this book, leading social thinker Pierre Bourdieu and the artist Hans Haacke discuss contemporary art and the relations between art, politics and society. Their dialogue ranges widely from censorship and obscenity to the social conditions of artistic creativity, and focusses on the central themes...

Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action

In this new volume Pierre Bourdieu - one of the foremost social thinkers of our time - clarifies and elaborates the most fundamental characteristics of his theoretical approach. Bourdieu's theory is both a relational philosophy of science dedicated to revealing the objective relations which shape an...

The Film Industry in Brazil: Culture and the State (Pitt Latin American Studies)

Looking back through the prism of the severe economic crisis for filmmaking in the 1980s, The Film Industry in Brazil explores the unusual relationship between the state-supported industry, which often produced politically radical films, and the authoritarian regime that had held sway for twenty yea...

The Field of Cultural Production

During the last two decades, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has become a dominant force in cultural activity ranging from taste in music and art to choices in food and lifestyles. The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's major essays on art and literature and provides the first intro...

New Latin American Cinema, Volume 2: Studies of National Cinemas

Mapping the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America, this two-volume collection of programmatic statements, esays and interviews is devoted to the study of a theorized, dynamic and unfinished cinematic movement. Forged by Latin America's post-colonial environment of under...

Manoel de Oliveira (Contemporary Film Directors)

Understanding the iconoclastic work of a lifelong cinematic pioneer With a career spanning over seventy years, Portuguese film director Manoel de Oliveira may be the oldest active filmmaker in the world today. Known for his distinctive formal techniques and philosophical treatment of themes such as ...

Brazilian Cinema (Film and Culture Series)

From the documentary to the cinema novo and cannibalism, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vidas Secas to music in the films of Glauber Rocha, this third, revised edition is a century-spanning introduction to the story of a medium that flourished in one of the most developed of 'underdeveloped' nat...

Cinema Novo x 5: Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film