Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism by Richard A. Gordon (review)
Cinema offers us a window into the soul of a nation—glimpses of how a people think about themselves and their identities. Richard Gordon’s new book looks closely at five films dealing with Brazilian slavery, produced from the mid 1970s to the early 2000s. He seeks “to understand better how the films invite individuals to rethink the collection of attributes they assign to the national category of their social identities” (4).