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The Spiral of the Snail: Searching for the Documentary – An Interview with Joao Moreira Salles1

2008; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 17; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13569320802228005

1469-9575

Edgardo Dieleke, Gabriela Nouzeilles,

Cinema and Media Studies

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 This interview was carried out in Princeton, New Jersey, in October 2007. 2 See entry for Joao Moreira Salles, written by José Carlos Avellar, in Cine documental en América Latina, edited by Paulo Antonio Paranaguá. Madrid: Cátedra, 2003. 3 Nancy, Jean-Luc. 2001. The Evidence of Film. Abbas Kiarostami. Paris: Yves Gevaert Éditeur: 44. 4 ‘O homem cordial’ (the ‘cordial’ or ‘gentle man’) is an anthropological concept coined by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda in his seminal work Raízes do Brasil (1936) to explain Brazilian modern identity. According to Buarque de Holanda, most Brazilians respond to the social psychology of the ‘homem cordial’, who consistently confounds the private world with the public sphere.