Haunted Cinema of Pedro Costa (eBook)

James Naremore, Darlene J. Sadlier (Autoren)

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2025
222 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253073259 (ISBN)

Infos

For over three decades, Portuguese director Pedro Costa has been widely admired for his unusual and innovative body of work, which has earned accolades and wide acclaim. The Haunted Cinema of Pedro Costa is the most complete treatment of his work, exploring Costa's feature films from Blood to Vitalina Varela, and from the documentaries to the short films, museum exhibitions, and the forthcoming Daughters of Fire. Authors James Naremore and Darlene J. Sadlier situate Costa within the history and culture of Portugal, at the same time providing insightful close readings and stylistic analysis of the films. Their work explores the unusual features of his artistry and illuminates his unique contribution to cinema. An accessible portrait of an important artist, The Haunted Cinema of Pedro Costa is an indispensable companion for scholars, students, and cinephiles everywhere.

Autor

James Naremore is Chancellors' Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative Literature, and the Media School at Indiana University Bloomington. He is author of numerous books, among them, More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts; On Kubrick and Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge. He is editor (with Patrick M. Brantlinger) of Modernity and Mass Culture.

Darlene J. Sadlier is Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of numerous books, most recently Memories of Underdevelopment; A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film: From Nationalism to Protest; and The Lilly Library from A to Z: Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection. She is editor and translator of One Hundred Years after Tomorrow: Brazilian Women's Fiction in the Twentieth Century.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Who Is He and What Is Cinema?
Part I: Early Films
O sangue (Blood, 1989)
Casa de lava (Down to Earth, 1994)
Part II: The Fontaínhas Trilogy
Ossos (Bones, 1997)
No quarto da Vanda (In Vanda's Room, 2000)
Juventude em marcha (Colossal Youth, 2006)
Part III: After Fontaínhas
Cavalo dinheiro (Horse Money, 2014)
Vitalina Varela (2019)
Part IV: Documentaries
Onde jaz o teu sorriso? (Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?, 2001)
Ne change rien (Change Nothing, 2009)
Part V: Exhibitions, Short Films, and a Work in Progress
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 12 color illus., 53 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Cape Verde • Documentary • Film noir • Lisbon • political cinema • Portugal • slow cinema
• ISBN-13: 9780253073259 / 9780253073259