Brazilian Cinema and the Aesthetics of Ruins

Guilherme Carréra is a Brazilian film researcher and curator. He holds a PhD in Film awarded by the University of Westminster. His project was sponsored by the CAPES Foundation (Ministry of Education, Brazil).

This is an intriguing walk amidst Brazilian ruins, from the outskirts of the capital to a Jesuit building in an indigenous area. By looking at those testimonies of underdevelopment, the author unfolds an extraordinary series of Brazilian singularities, but also illuminates our past, present and future in a neoliberal world.

• FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: In search of Brazilian ruinsPart OneFraming the ruins: From Cinema Novo to contemporary Brazilian documentary1: A realm for the ruins of Brazil2: Cinema Novo: A country in crisis3: Documentary in the wake of Cinema da Retomada Part TwoThe other side of progress: Cinematic (re)constructions of Brasilia4: A controversial spatiality: Myth and apartheid5: Realism under erasure or not quite: New imagery and storytelling6: The Age of Stone : The uchronic mode of a monument7: White Out, Black In : Exploding the Third World from a laje point of viewPart ThreeConstructing ruins in Rio de Janeiro: An intermedial visualization of failing projects8: Tropicalia: An intermedial counterculture9: The rubble as the legacy: A ruin for the World Cup and the Olympics10: The Carmen Miranda ruinous spaceship in Tropical Curse11: A lame-leg architecture: Half-hospital, half-ruin in H U EnigmaPart FourThe long-standing ruination: Indigenous territory in dispute12: Setting the ground: Cinema Novo and indigenous representation13: The Video nas Aldeias case: For an indigenous media to emerge14: ‘Here, in this scenario of destruction …’: Territory of ruins in Corumbiara15: Made of stone and ruins: Indigenous filmmaking in Tava, The House of Stone, Two Villages, One Path and Guarani Exile Conclusion: A walk amid the cinematic ruinsNotesReferencesFilmographyIndex