Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: The Modern Foundations of Brazilian Cinema 1
6. Part I. Locating the Belle Epoque of Brazilian Cinema
7. 1. Early Cinema and National Identity in Brazil: Mapping Out a Space of Analysis 21
8. 2. Cinematic Vistas of Rio de Janeiro’s Worldly Modernity 39
9. 3. Alternative Urban Projections in Early Narrative Films 58
10. Part II. Hollywood Revisions
11. 4. Film and Fandom in Cinearte Magazine 85
12. 5. Beyond Hollywood: Reading Slave Relations in Humberto Mauro’s Lost Treasure (1927) 113
13. Part III. The Rondon Commission: Producing New Visions of the Amazon
14. 6. Picturing the Tropics: Forging a National Territory through Photography and Film 131
15. 7. The Expedition Films of Major Luiz Thomaz Reis 156
16. Part IV. Modernism and the Movies
17. 8. Modernismo’s Literary Engagements with Film 181
18. 9. Th e Cine-Poetry of Mário Peixoto’s Limite 208
19. 10. Fabricating Discipline and Progress in São Paulo, Symphony of a Metropolis 224
20. Postscript: Toward New Cinematic Foundations 242
21. Notes 247
22. Filmography 279
23. Bibliography 283
24. Index 303