Author: Professor Lucia Nagib

Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes. Hitherto virtually unknown outside Brazil is that he was …

Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes. Hitherto virtually unknown outside Brazil is that he was …

This innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the cultural imaginary. It also repositions world cinema in a wider discursive space than is usually the case and treats it as an object of …

Impure Cinema goes back to Bazin”s original title precisely for its defence of impurity, applying it on the one hand to cinema”s interbreeding with other arts and on the other to its ability to con …

Andre Bazin’s famous article, ‘Pour un cinema impur: defense de l’adaptation’, was first translated into English simply as ‘In Defence of Mixed Cinema’, probably to avoid any uncomfortable sexual or …

Two periods of Brazilian film history are particularly notable for their artistic momentum: the Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s and early ’70s, and the film revival from the mid 1990s onwards. What …

Lucia Nagib presents a comprehensive critical survey of Brazilian film production since the mid 1990s, which has become known as the ‘renaissance of Brazilian cinema’. Besides explaining the recent b …

Lucia Nagib presents a comprehensive critical survey of Brazilian film production since the mid 1990s, which has become known as the "renaissance of Brazilian cinema". Besides explaining th …