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“PRÓLOGOS ENVENENADOS”: CINEMA E TEATRO NOS PALCOS DA CINELÂNDIA CARIOCA

2009; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO OESTE DO PARANÁ; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

1982-5935

Luciana Corrêa de Araújo,

Brazilian cultural history and politics

In 1926, the new, luxurious movie theatres at Rio de Janeiro’s Cinelândia, ownedby Francisco Serrador, import a new attraction from United States: prologues performed onstage, before film screenings. The film magazines Selecta and Cinearte fought against prologues, which represented a peculiar intersection between cinema and theatre, making use of elementsand strategies that will be found in film comedies and “chanchadas” produced from the 1930’son.