The New Brazilian Cinema

A book looking at the broader political and policy-making issues for a dynamic new Brazilian cinema. It also offers close analyses of internationally acclaimed films like Central Station, Seven Days in September, Orfeu and others. It examines common factors across a great variety of films, including filmmakers´ engagement with national identity, a major concern for the Cinema Novo of the 1960s, which has emerged in contemporary films with new relevance in a globalized world.