Based on a conference on contemporary Brazilian cinema organized by the Centre for Brazilian Studies and held at Wadham College, Oxford in June 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A new policy for Brazilian cinema / Jos�e �Alvaro Mois�es -- The cinema that Brazil deserves / Carlos Diegues -- Brazilian cinema in the 1990s : the unexpected encounter and the resentful character / Ismail Xavier -- Humility, guilt and narcissism turned inside out in Brazil's film revival / Fern�ao Pessoa Ramos -- Chronically unfeasible : the political film in a depoliticized world / Jo�ao Luiz Vieira -- It's all Brazil / Amir Labaki -- A cinema of conversation - Eduardo Coutinho's Santo Forte and Babil�onia 2000 / Ver�onica Ferreira Dias -- The sert�ao and the favela in contemporary Brazilian film / Ivana Bentes -- The sert�ao in the Brazilian imaginary at the end of the millennium / Luiz Zanin Oricchio -- Death on the beach - the recycled utopia of Midnight / L�ucia Nagib -- Nelson Rodrigues in the 1990s : two recent screen adaptations / Stephanie Dennison -- An oblique gaze : irony and humour in Helv�ecio Ratton's Love & Co / Maria Esther Maciel -- Cabral and the Indians : filmic representations of Brazil's 500 years / Robert Stam -- For all and traditions of popular musical comedy / Lisa Shaw -- ImagiNation / Jos�e Carlos Avellar -- Then and now : cinema as history in the light of new media and new technologies / Laura Mulvey.

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