Le cinéma comme articulation des différences culturelles : une approche post-coloniale du cinéma brésilien

Regarding Brazil, one may allege that the efforts to institute a history of cinema, to ensure a movie production system or to socially or aesthetically legitimate the country’s cinematographic production have been highly influenced by the concept of national identity. Identity and nation have been critical and analytical paradigms prone to forge important cinematographic movements, such as Cinema Novo. Thus Brazilian cinema has grown as a cinema in search of its national identity. But such a quest is vowed to failure if one contemplates the critical concept of nation and the renewal of the notion of identity, updated by cultural and postcolonial studies by Jamaican sociologist Stuart Hall and Indian literary critic Homi K. Bhabha