Articles and Resources Glauber Rocha

History of Brazil

VV.AA. Brazil: Five Centuries of Change. Brown University, Center for Digital Scholarship.

History of Brazil

Cinema Novo

Ana Lucía Araújo : “History and Heritage of Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade in the South Atlantic.”

Cinema Novo

Scott L. Baugh: “Manifesting La Historia: Systems of ‘Development’ and the New Latin American Cinema Manifesto.”

Alex Viany: “The Old and the New in Brazilian Cinema.”

Lúcia Nagib: “Passages to Reality: The Case of Brazilian Cinema.”

Joao Luiz Viera and Robert Stam: “PARODY & MARGINALITY: The case of Brazilian Cinema.”

Eduardo Ledesma: Expanding Cinemas: Experimental Filmmaking across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic since 1960.

Concetta Carestia Greenfield: “The New South American Cinema: From Neo-Realism to Expressive Realism.”

Sophia A. McClennen: “From the Aesthetics of Hunger to the Cosmetics of Hunger in Brazilian Cinema: Meirelles’ City of God.”

Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky: “The Latin American Process Film.”

Randall Johnson: “Introduction: Cinema Novo, the State, and Modern Brazilian Cinema.” 

Darlene J. Sadlier: “Cinema Novo Redux” in A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film

Interviews and Profiles

Gary Crowdus, Wm. Starr, Ruth McCormick, and Susan Hertelendy: “CINEMA NOVO VS. CULTURAL COLONIALISM: an interview with Glauber Rocha.” 

Gordon Hitchens: “The Way to Make a Future : A CONVERSATION WITH GLAUBER ROCHA.”

James Phillips: “Hunger and Garbage.”

José Gatti: “Impersonations of Glauber Rocha by Glauber Rocha.”

Brian Susbielles: “The Raw Kind: Glauber Rocha and his Passions.”

The Turning Wind (Barravento), 1962

Robert Stam: Tropical Multiculturalism (excerpt)

Dilek Önder: “Ambiguities and Double Voices in Barravento.”

James Hodgson: “Possibilities for queer revolution in Glauber Rocha’s  Barravento/The Turning Wind (1962).” 

Alexandra Seibel: “Staging the oppressed – ‘La Terra Trema’ and “Barravento’.”

Black God, White Devil, 1964

Mario Zupanovic: “Theatricality and performativity in Glauber Rocha’s cinema novo films.”

Ivana Ventes: “Politics and Aesthetics of Myth in Black God, White Devil.”

Peter Henné: “‘This Pain Grows Like the Sun’: Epistemology, Myth and History in Black God, White Devil.”

Amazonas, Amazonas, 1965

Luiza Beatriz Alvim: “Amazonas, Amazonas de Glauber Rocha e a música de Villa-Lobos: representações entre passado, presente e futuro.”

Sérgio Ivan Gil Braga: “Glauber Rocha’s Amazon: an analysis of the documentary ‘Amazonas, Amazonas’.”

Rosiel Mendonça and Sérgio Braga: “Glauber Rocha descobre a Amazônia: discurso e representações sociais no documentário Amazonas, Amazonas.”

Maranhão 66, 1966

 Raquel Schefer: “Maranhão 66 (1966), de Glauber Rocha.: El newsreel y sus dinámicas formales.”

Entranced Earth, 1967

Robert Stam: “Land in Anguish.”

Ismail Xavier: “Land in Anguish: Allegory and Agony” in Allegories of Underdevelopment.”

Antonio das Mortes, 1969

Martin Scorsese on Glauber Rocha

Thomas M. Kavanagh: “Imperialism and the Revolutionary Cinema: Glauber Rocha’s ‘Antonio das Mortes’.”

Stefan Solomon: “‘The cloak of technicolor’: intermedial colour in Antônio das Mortes.”

Ana Luiza Valverde da Silva: “Análisis semiótico y discursivo de las películas Dios y el Diablo en la tierra del sol y Antonio das Mortes, de Glauber Rocha.”

Di Cavalcanti, 1977

Darlene J. Sadlier: “Documenting Death: Di Cavalcanti and Glauber, o filme.”

Carolina Sierra Azul: “Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber: Un entierro festivo para el modernismo.”

(Bio of Cavalcanti)

Bahian Renaissance 

João José Reis: “Slave Resistance in Brazil: Bahia, 1807-1835 .”

Robert Stam: “Slow Fade to Afro: The Black Presence in Brazilian Cinema.”

Candomblé 

Stephen Selka: “Mediated Authenticity: Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Brazilian Candomblé.” 

Jacob U. Gordon: “Yoruba Cosmology and Culture in Brazil: A Study of African Survivals in the New World.”

Sheila S. Walker: “Everyday and Esoteric Reality in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé.”

Glauber Rocha’s Theoretical Writings 

Glauber Rocha: “Aesthetics of Hunger.”

Glauber Rocha: “The Revolution is an Aesthetics.”

Glauber Rocha: “The Cinematographic Revolution.”

Glauber Rocha: “An Aesthetics of Dreams.”

Sertão and Cangançeiros 

Rex P. Nielson: “The Unmappable Sertão.”