| #4572356 in Books | University of Virginia Press | 2011-12-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.70 x5.90l,.70 | File type: PDF | 248 pages | ||||Conde has astutely identified a gap in existing literature, namely, a study of the relationship between pre-modernist writers of ‘mass literature’ and film. Highly original and likely to prompt new ways of thinking about film culture. (Lisa Shaw,
Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization. Maite Conde places this relationship in the specific context of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, which underwent a radical transformation to a modern global city, becoming a concrete symbol of the country's broader processes of change...
You easily download any file type for your device.Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro (New World Studies) | Maite Conde.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
