Sam Dennison
Biographic Data
| ID | 113108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Dennison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Dennison |
| SIGNATURE | DENNISON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds, Reino Unido |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5699-8741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Flipping the Script—Community Grand Rounds
Cinema and Soft Power: Configuring the National and Transnational in Geo-politics
Explores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemasExamines the implications for global film culture of the apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing worldConsideration given to the transnational dimension of film culturesDiscusses the relationship between film culture and soft power in the BRICS countries and the UKThe apparent shift in power relations between the d…
Ed Wood brasileiro? Raffaele Rossi, Boca do Lixo e certa ideia de mau filme no Brasil
Neste artigo, examinaremos alguns aspectos da redescoberta, por críticos e pesquisadores do cinema nacional, da obra do cineasta ítalo-brasileiro Raffaele Rossi (1938-2007), dedicado à realização de filmes eróticos em São Paulo entre as décadas de 1970 e 1980. Buscaremos observar como esses pesquisadores e críticos, pautados, tanto pela má reputação do cinema paulista da Boca do Lixo quanto pelo culto contemporâneo ao chamado paracinema (SCONCE, …
Cultura cinematográfica e identidades queer no Brasil contemporâneo
Este artigo procura analisar a interação entre a cultura cinematográfica brasileira, as comunidades LGBTQIA+ e a sociedade em geral no começo do século XXI, uma interação (e produção cinematográfica) que aumentou exponencialmente durante o período destacado, em grande parte como resultado do alcance aos meios de produção de grupos historicamente segregados, juntamente com maior acesso ao financiamento de filmes. Após contextualizar a produção de …
Cordiality and Intimacy in Contemporary Brazilian Culture
This special issue is based on work carried out by researchers of REBRAC (Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Analise Cultural (European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis) into t
Intimacy and cordiality in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius
Taking as its point of departure Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s theorising of O homem cordial (cordial man) and Gilberto Freyre’s foundational text Casa-grande & senzala (The Masters and the Slaves), this article will present a reading of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s second feature film Aquarius (2016) as a contemporary revision of the well-worn myths of intimacy and cordiality in Brazilian culture. It will focus on the complex relationship between maids…
The Routledge Companion to World Cinema
Rather than suffer the ongoing dominance of critical and theoretical frameworks for understanding world cinemas that cannot keep pace with technological innovation, political change, the movement of people and the networks they inhabit, this essay establishes the concept of cinemas of citizens and cinemas of sentiment in order to embrace the present continuous tense of world cinema and map its real-time ongoing evolution. Following the political …
FromSuperwomantoFake Blonde: The representation of blondness on the Brazilian big screen
This article examines the various representations of Brazilian blonds on cinema screens, ranging from the ‘uber-blonde’, strongly associated with Brazil’s southernmost states, where large numbers of northern Europeans (Germans, mostly) emigrated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to male and female film personas and celebrities who adopt the blond look, either by bleaching their hair or by donning blond wigs. The aim is to refl…
Cinemas do Mundo, Cinemas no Mundo: Entrevista com Stephanie Dennison, da University of Leeds - Stephanie Dennison (University of Leeds)
Dra. Stephanie Dennison (entrevistada)Entrevistadoras Dra. Ramayana Lira e Dra Alessandra Brandão
Blonde Bombshell: Xuxa and Notions of Whiteness in Brazil
This article analyses the construction of whiteness in Xuxa's star text. It will consider not only Xuxa's role in television, for which she is best known, and her relationship with the sexually conservative and predominantly white TV Globo, but also her filmic output: Xuxa has appeared in twenty films to date, most of which were box-office smash hits. The article thus takes as its main focus the development of the promotion of Xuxa as an ideal of…
Pop Culture Latin America: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle
A survey of contemporary Latin American popular culture, covering topics that range from music and film to popular festivals and fashion. Like no other volume of its kind,Pop Culture Latin America!captures the breadth and vitality of pop culture in Central and South America and the Caribbean, exploring both familiar and lesser-known aspects of its unique melange of art, entertainment, spirituality, and celebrations. Written by contributors who ar…
A Meeting of Two Worlds: Recent Trends in Brazilian Cinema
Three Centuries of American Music: A Collection of American Sacred and Secular Music
Bibliography of Black Music
Scandalize My Name: Black Imagery in American Popular Music
Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born before 1900
Bibliography of Black Music; Volume 1: Reference Materials
Yesterdays; Popular Song in America
Blonde Bombshell: Xuxa and Notions of Whiteness in Brazil
This article analyses the construction of whiteness in Xuxa's star text. It will consider not only Xuxa's role in television, for which she is best known, and her relationship with the sexually conservative and predominantly white TV Globo, but also her filmic output: Xuxa has appeared in twenty films to date, most of which were box-office smash hits. The article thus takes as its main focus the development of the promotion of Xuxa as an ideal of…
Yesterdays; Popular Song in America
Bibliography of Black Music; Volume 1: Reference Materials
Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born before 1900
Scandalize My Name: Black Imagery in American Popular Music
Bibliography of Black Music
Three Centuries of American Music: A Collection of American Sacred and Secular Music
A Meeting of Two Worlds: Recent Trends in Brazilian Cinema
Pop Culture Latin America: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle
A survey of contemporary Latin American popular culture, covering topics that range from music and film to popular festivals and fashion. Like no other volume of its kind,Pop Culture Latin America!captures the breadth and vitality of pop culture in Central and South America and the Caribbean, exploring both familiar and lesser-known aspects of its unique melange of art, entertainment, spirituality, and celebrations. Written by contributors who ar…
Cinemas do Mundo, Cinemas no Mundo: Entrevista com Stephanie Dennison, da University of Leeds - Stephanie Dennison (University of Leeds)
Dra. Stephanie Dennison (entrevistada)Entrevistadoras Dra. Ramayana Lira e Dra Alessandra Brandão
Blonde Bombshell: Xuxa and Notions of Whiteness in Brazil
This article analyses the construction of whiteness in Xuxa's star text. It will consider not only Xuxa's role in television, for which she is best known, and her relationship with the sexually conservative and predominantly white TV Globo, but also her filmic output: Xuxa has appeared in twenty films to date, most of which were box-office smash hits. The article thus takes as its main focus the development of the promotion of Xuxa as an ideal of…
FromSuperwomantoFake Blonde: The representation of blondness on the Brazilian big screen
This article examines the various representations of Brazilian blonds on cinema screens, ranging from the ‘uber-blonde’, strongly associated with Brazil’s southernmost states, where large numbers of northern Europeans (Germans, mostly) emigrated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to male and female film personas and celebrities who adopt the blond look, either by bleaching their hair or by donning blond wigs. The aim is to refl…
The Routledge Companion to World Cinema
Rather than suffer the ongoing dominance of critical and theoretical frameworks for understanding world cinemas that cannot keep pace with technological innovation, political change, the movement of people and the networks they inhabit, this essay establishes the concept of cinemas of citizens and cinemas of sentiment in order to embrace the present continuous tense of world cinema and map its real-time ongoing evolution. Following the political …
Cordiality and Intimacy in Contemporary Brazilian Culture
This special issue is based on work carried out by researchers of REBRAC (Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Analise Cultural (European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis) into t
Intimacy and cordiality in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius
Taking as its point of departure Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s theorising of O homem cordial (cordial man) and Gilberto Freyre’s foundational text Casa-grande & senzala (The Masters and the Slaves), this article will present a reading of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s second feature film Aquarius (2016) as a contemporary revision of the well-worn myths of intimacy and cordiality in Brazilian culture. It will focus on the complex relationship between maids…
Cultura cinematográfica e identidades queer no Brasil contemporâneo
Este artigo procura analisar a interação entre a cultura cinematográfica brasileira, as comunidades LGBTQIA+ e a sociedade em geral no começo do século XXI, uma interação (e produção cinematográfica) que aumentou exponencialmente durante o período destacado, em grande parte como resultado do alcance aos meios de produção de grupos historicamente segregados, juntamente com maior acesso ao financiamento de filmes. Após contextualizar a produção de …
Cinema and Soft Power: Configuring the National and Transnational in Geo-politics
Explores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemasExamines the implications for global film culture of the apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing worldConsideration given to the transnational dimension of film culturesDiscusses the relationship between film culture and soft power in the BRICS countries and the UKThe apparent shift in power relations between the d…
Ed Wood brasileiro? Raffaele Rossi, Boca do Lixo e certa ideia de mau filme no Brasil
Neste artigo, examinaremos alguns aspectos da redescoberta, por críticos e pesquisadores do cinema nacional, da obra do cineasta ítalo-brasileiro Raffaele Rossi (1938-2007), dedicado à realização de filmes eróticos em São Paulo entre as décadas de 1970 e 1980. Buscaremos observar como esses pesquisadores e críticos, pautados, tanto pela má reputação do cinema paulista da Boca do Lixo quanto pelo culto contemporâneo ao chamado paracinema (SCONCE, …
Flipping the Script—Community Grand Rounds
Art (16 works) · History (11 works) · Art history (8 works) · Movie theater (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works)