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Uma pernambucana decidida: Nancy Wanderley na chanchada (1954-1960)

2012; Departamento de Cinema, Rádio e Televisão da Universidade de São Paulo; Volume: 39; Issue: 38 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2012.71140

2316-7114

Júlio César Lobo,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

This essay aims to examine how the carioca actress Nancy Wanderley Rio built the kind of brave Pernambuco woman, especially regarding the use of physical force, in most of its stake in carioca musical comedy film, the slapstick, from a stereotype of women Northeast consolidated in the ballad Paraíba. For that investigates the historical origins of the term, the transformation of that song in musical success as well as the audiovisual appearance of his matrix, the Madame Pau-Pereira in É fogo na roupa (1952). Here, we analyze five films: O petróleo é nosso (1954), No mundo da lua (1958), O camelô da rua larga (1958), Quem roubou meu samba? and Samba em Brasília (1960).