Professor Darlene Sadlier
email: sadlier@indiana.edu

MW 1:00pm – 2:15pm/section #3973/3 cr./Ballantine Hall 205
M 6:30pm – 9:00pm/Ballantine Hall 204   (film showing)

P510	Brazilian Cinema

A survey of Brazilian cinema from the early 20th century to present
day. The course will give attention to representative filmmakers and
their works, beginning with Mário Peixoto’s "Limite" (1930), which
is regarded as one of the masterpieces of silent cinema. Other
subjects to be explored include the "chanchada," or Hollywood-style
musical comedies of the 1940s and 1950s, and the New Cinema of the
1960s and 1970s. The course will also focus on more recent films
that have appeared since the country’s return to democracy after
more than 20 years of military dictatorship. Topics to be discussed
during the semester include the "chanchada" and its re-evaluation as
a distinctly Brazilian genre; Third Cinema, the “aesthetics of
violence” and the theoretical and critical writings of filmmaker
Glauber Rocha; the relationship between popular culture and radical
cinema; and film adaptation. The course is taught in English. All
films are in Portuguese with English subtitles. (NB: Students who
are taking the course for credit toward degree requirements in
Portuguese will read materials and write exams and a research paper
in the language.)

Course Requirements:
All students will write a midterm and final exam. Undergraduate
students will write an 8-10pp research paper on a topic to be
discussed with the instructor. Graduate students will write a 12-
15pp research paper on an approved topic. Each student will give a
formal in-class report based on their research.

Grading: Midterm exam - 30%
Final exam - 30%
Research paper/presentation - 25% / 5%
Attendance and participation - 10%



*Please note that this course meets jointly with P410.