Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes: On Brazil and Global Cinema, edited by Maite Conde and Stephanie Dennison

Abstract

Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes: On Brazil and Global Cinema, edited by Maite Conde and Stephanie Dennison and with translations by Amber Rose McCartney, is the first collection of essays by Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes published in the English language. Most film scholars, even those not involved with Brazilian or Latin American cinema, will be familiar with the name of the film historian and critic, even if they have only heard of his monograph on Jean Vigo, which was first published in French in 1957 and translated into English by Salles Gomes himself in 1971 (with a new edition launched in 1998). However, in Brazil his legacy is still palpable today, most notably his attitude towards national cinema. Bringing together an unwavering socio-political commitment, a keen anticolonial engagement, a rigorous aesthetic approach and a concern for the material and intellectual heritage, Paulo Emílio set an example which is still recognisable in the work of both his disciples and of younger generations of Brazilian scholars.

Keywords

• latin american cinema
• film criticism
• audiences
• postcolonial theory