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With the Alma no Olho

2020; University of California Press; Volume: 74; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/fq.2020.74.2.32

1533-8630

Janaína Oliveira,

Cinema and Media Studies

In an impressionistic, episodic appreciation, Janaína Oliveira reconsiders the legacy of Black Brazilian filmmaker Zózimo Bulbul. She argues that Bulbul’s status as a pioneer for black Brazilian cinema does not reside in historical chronology, but rather in the aesthetic and narrative advances accomplished by his short film, Alma no olho (Soul in the Eye), in which he also starred. Having endured almost forty years of neglect by the Brazilian film establishment, Alma no olho is now being taken up again as a reference point by a new generation of Black Brazilian filmmakers.