Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-xi

The Contributors

pp xii-xvii

Acknowledgements

pp xviii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Intervisuality

pp 15-16

1 - Traffic in Images: Visual Spectacle before Cinema in Brazil

pp 17-38

2 - Intermedial Landscapes in the Work of Cao Guimarães

pp 39-50

3 - ‘The most innocent film of the year’: Comic Books, Sex and Cinema Marginal

pp 51-70

4 - Photographs of the Invisible: Intermedial Figurations of Social Exclusion in Babás and Aquarius

pp 71-93

5 - Exploring the Cinematic Imaginary: Carlos Adriano, André Parente and the Precision of the Vague

pp 94-110

Part II - The Empire of Music

pp 111-112

6 - Watson Macedo's Aviso aos navegantes (1950): Reflections on the Musical Numbers of a Brazilian Chanchada

pp 113-130

7 - (In)Visible Musicians: Supporting Instrumentalists and their Intermedial Vocation

pp 131-143

8 - Music-video Aesthetics in Pernambucan Cinema

pp 144-158

9 - Possessing Archival Images: Ghosts, Songs and Films in Cartola – música para os olhos (2007)

pp 159-174

Part III - Entertainment Circuits

pp 175-176

10 - Intermediality in Brazilian Silent Cinema: Luiz de Barros's Works and Intermedial Strategies

pp 177-193

11 - ‘Synchronised Film Fever’ amid the ‘Gramophonoradiomania’: Record, Radio and Cinema at the Dawn of the ‘Talkies’ in Rio de Janeiro

pp 194-214

12 - The Singer, the Acrobats and the Bands: A Study of Three Brazilian Films and their Intermedial Characters

pp 215-227

13 - Gilda de Abreu's O Ébrio as a Unique Intermedial Project

pp 228-242

14 - Chanchada, Samba and Beyond: From the Cinema of Radio to the Cinema of Television (1930s–1960s)

pp 243-258

Part IV - From Impure Cinema to Cosmopoetics

pp 259-260

15 - Impure Cinema as Method: The Last Films of Eduardo Coutinho

pp 261-273

16 - Queering Intermediality in Brazilian Cinema

pp 274-287

17 - The Humiliation of the Father: Theatrical Melodrama and Cinema Novo's Critique of Conservative Modernisation

pp 288-306

18 - Intermedial Territories: Maps and the Amazonian Moving Image

pp 307-322

19 - An Intermedial Reading of Glauber Rocha's Cosmogony

pp 323-344

Index

pp 345-364