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Provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. This title examines the broad historical and cultural links that connect Brazil and the United States before considering multicultural imagery in Brazilian film as it has changed from the silent era to the present.

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"Tropical Multiculturalism establishes Robert Stam as the foremost authority on the intersection of race, culture, and film in Brazil. Some think of blacks in Brazilian film as samba and sound but Stam liberates us all with a gorgeously argued relational text that is destined to become a classic in film criticism."—Robert Farris Thompson, Yale University
"With Tropical Multiculturalism, Robert Stam—one of the most sophisticated theorists of contemporary cultural representations—provides a much needed, historicized model for the analysis of non-European and Afro-diasporic cinemas and cultures."—Monthia Diawara, New York University

Tropical Multiculturalism

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 17 December 1997
      ISBN-13 9780822320487
      978-0822320487
      ISBN-10 0822320487
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      Film history, theory or criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. This title examines the broad historical and cultural links that connect Brazil and the United States before considering multicultural imagery in Brazilian film as it has changed from the silent era to the present.

      Trade Review
      "Tropical Multiculturalism establishes Robert Stam as the foremost authority on the intersection of race, culture, and film in Brazil. Some think of blacks in Brazilian film as samba and sound but Stam liberates us all with a gorgeously argued relational text that is destined to become a classic in film criticism."—Robert Farris Thompson, Yale University
      "With Tropical Multiculturalism, Robert Stam—one of the most sophisticated theorists of contemporary cultural representations—provides a much needed, historicized model for the analysis of non-European and Afro-diasporic cinemas and cultures."—Monthia Diawara, New York University

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