Film, Television and Traditional Folk Culture in Bye Bye Brasil 1
1984; Wiley; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.0022-3840.1984.1801_121.x
ISSN1540-5931
Autores Tópico(s)Literature, Culture, and Criticism
ResumoBrazilian Cinema Novo [New Cinema] has produced a number of films that have circulated in the United States but perhaps the most familiar to American audiences is Carlos Diegues' Bye Bye Brasil (1980). In his article, Randal Johnson focuses on this film which presents Brazil as a country in a process of rapid transformation, an agro‐pastoral economy giving way to rapid industrialization. He notes that “running throughout [the work] is a subtext which constitutes a good‐humored yet critical retrospective of the trajectory of Brazilian cinema over the last twenty years and its relationship to other conscious‐forming media, notably television.” Johnson examines this subject as well as the complex relationship between cinema, television and popular culture as developed through the device of the Caravana Rolidei, a small‐time circus troupe. Each of its characters represents a different aspect of contemporary Brazilian society, and the film as a whole presents the panoply of Brazilian culture, a mixture of elements from diverse sources, both foreign and domestic. Randal Johnson teaches literature and film at the University of Florida. He is the co‐author of Brazilian Cinema (1982).
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