Maite Conde
Biographic Data
| ID | 127605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maite Conde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maite |
| FAMILY NAME | Conde |
| SIGNATURE | CONDE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8856-2689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In Memory Of Jean Franco
Manifesting Democracy? Urban Protests and the Politics of Representation in Brazil Post-2013
Towards an Alternative 1922: Popular Culture and Rio de Janeiro's Vernacular Modernisms
This article explores cultural innovations taking place in Rio de Janeiro in 1922. The year evidenced numerous changes in the then capital. These have, though, been eclipsed by the dominant focus on avant-garde experimentations by modernist artists in São Paulo. Returning to 1922 and zooming in on Rio, this article explores transformations that altered the space of the city, and its popular cultural landscape. By doing so, the article seeks to wi…
Brazil in the Time of Coronavirus
This essay outlines and analyses the spread of the coronavirus in Brazil. In doing so it explores how the pandemic, whilst initially brought into the country by the wealthy elite, has predominantly affected the country's poor, revealing structural inequalities that encompass class, race and ethnic differences, in which the poor are not afforded the right to live. It additionally examines the response to COVID-19 by the country's far right preside…
Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil
The first screening of films in Brazil took place on July 8, 1896. Journalists immediately praised the movies’ modernity and their progressive dimensions. Their commentaries support the commonly held premise that cinema was related to the onset of modernity. In Brazil, relationship had a very specific impetus. After the abolition of slavery in 1888, followed a year later by the ousting of the imperial monarchy, a new Republican regime (1889–1930)…
Cinema’s Milieu: Negotiating the movies’ public and popular dimensions in early twentieth-century Brazil
Drawing on extensive archival research, this paper examines the controversies over the place and the role of cinema in early twentieth-century Brazil. It situates these debates in the context of Brazil’s struggle to come to terms with the powerful forces of modernity, in particular with issues of race, immigration, class formation and conflict, and changing gender roles. Tracing the discourses of Brazil’s cultural elites and also the practical re…
Consuming visions: Female stars, the melindrosa and desires for a Brazilian film industry
Kicking Off in Brazil: Manifesting Democracy
On 6 June, nine days before the Confederations Cup was due to kick off in Brasília, the first of a series of public protests – ‘manifestações’ – began in São Paulo. They quickly swept across Brazil, rippling through at least 70 cities, including Rio de Janeiro, Belem, Belo Horizonte, Salvador and Brasília. The largest protests that the country, and indeed Latin America, has witnessed in more than twenty years, the manifestações have received wide…
Between Conformity and Resistance: Essays on Politics, Culture, and the State
Since the 1980's, Marilena Chauí's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are te
Women, Writing and the Spectacle of Brazil's Worldly Modernity: Reading Benjamin Costallat's Mademoiselle Cinema
Este ensaio analisa o romance popular Mademoiselle Cinema do escritor carioca Benjamin Costallat. Publicado no começo dos anos 20, Mademoiselle Cinema foi um grande sucesso editorial, vendendo 25 mil exemplares em 1923, e gerou muitas discussões com respeito ao valor da literatura e do escritor na sociedade brasileira moderna. Apesar do impacto do livro, Mademoiselle Cinema mal aparece na história da literatura brasileira moderna que trata mais d…
Film and the Cronica: Documenting New Urban Experiences in Turn of the Century Rio de Janeiro
Este ensaio analisa duas crônicas escritas no Brasil no começo do século vinte: "Moléstia da época" (1906) de Olavo Bilac e "Cinematógrafo de letras" (1909) de João do Rio. Estas crônicas discutem um meio recentemente chegado ao país—o cinema. O ensaio examina como as crônicas documentam esta nova invenção, e especialmente analisa as diversas maneiras em que os textosressaltam uma forte ligação entre o cinema e um novo espaço urbano no Riode Jane…
Kicking Off in Brazil: Manifesting Democracy
On 6 June, nine days before the Confederations Cup was due to kick off in Brasília, the first of a series of public protests – ‘manifestações’ – began in São Paulo. They quickly swept across Brazil, rippling through at least 70 cities, including Rio de Janeiro, Belem, Belo Horizonte, Salvador and Brasília. The largest protests that the country, and indeed Latin America, has witnessed in more than twenty years, the manifestações have received wide…
Brazil in the Time of Coronavirus
This essay outlines and analyses the spread of the coronavirus in Brazil. In doing so it explores how the pandemic, whilst initially brought into the country by the wealthy elite, has predominantly affected the country's poor, revealing structural inequalities that encompass class, race and ethnic differences, in which the poor are not afforded the right to live. It additionally examines the response to COVID-19 by the country's far right preside…
Towards an Alternative 1922: Popular Culture and Rio de Janeiro's Vernacular Modernisms
This article explores cultural innovations taking place in Rio de Janeiro in 1922. The year evidenced numerous changes in the then capital. These have, though, been eclipsed by the dominant focus on avant-garde experimentations by modernist artists in São Paulo. Returning to 1922 and zooming in on Rio, this article explores transformations that altered the space of the city, and its popular cultural landscape. By doing so, the article seeks to wi…
Film and the Cronica: Documenting New Urban Experiences in Turn of the Century Rio de Janeiro
Este ensaio analisa duas crônicas escritas no Brasil no começo do século vinte: "Moléstia da época" (1906) de Olavo Bilac e "Cinematógrafo de letras" (1909) de João do Rio. Estas crônicas discutem um meio recentemente chegado ao país—o cinema. O ensaio examina como as crônicas documentam esta nova invenção, e especialmente analisa as diversas maneiras em que os textosressaltam uma forte ligação entre o cinema e um novo espaço urbano no Riode Jane…
Between Conformity and Resistance: Essays on Politics, Culture, and the State
Since the 1980's, Marilena Chauí's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are te
Women, Writing and the Spectacle of Brazil's Worldly Modernity: Reading Benjamin Costallat's Mademoiselle Cinema
Este ensaio analisa o romance popular Mademoiselle Cinema do escritor carioca Benjamin Costallat. Publicado no começo dos anos 20, Mademoiselle Cinema foi um grande sucesso editorial, vendendo 25 mil exemplares em 1923, e gerou muitas discussões com respeito ao valor da literatura e do escritor na sociedade brasileira moderna. Apesar do impacto do livro, Mademoiselle Cinema mal aparece na história da literatura brasileira moderna que trata mais d…
Kicking Off in Brazil: Manifesting Democracy
On 6 June, nine days before the Confederations Cup was due to kick off in Brasília, the first of a series of public protests – ‘manifestações’ – began in São Paulo. They quickly swept across Brazil, rippling through at least 70 cities, including Rio de Janeiro, Belem, Belo Horizonte, Salvador and Brasília. The largest protests that the country, and indeed Latin America, has witnessed in more than twenty years, the manifestações have received wide…
Consuming visions: Female stars, the melindrosa and desires for a Brazilian film industry
Cinema’s Milieu: Negotiating the movies’ public and popular dimensions in early twentieth-century Brazil
Drawing on extensive archival research, this paper examines the controversies over the place and the role of cinema in early twentieth-century Brazil. It situates these debates in the context of Brazil’s struggle to come to terms with the powerful forces of modernity, in particular with issues of race, immigration, class formation and conflict, and changing gender roles. Tracing the discourses of Brazil’s cultural elites and also the practical re…
Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil
The first screening of films in Brazil took place on July 8, 1896. Journalists immediately praised the movies’ modernity and their progressive dimensions. Their commentaries support the commonly held premise that cinema was related to the onset of modernity. In Brazil, relationship had a very specific impetus. After the abolition of slavery in 1888, followed a year later by the ousting of the imperial monarchy, a new Republican regime (1889–1930)…
Brazil in the Time of Coronavirus
This essay outlines and analyses the spread of the coronavirus in Brazil. In doing so it explores how the pandemic, whilst initially brought into the country by the wealthy elite, has predominantly affected the country's poor, revealing structural inequalities that encompass class, race and ethnic differences, in which the poor are not afforded the right to live. It additionally examines the response to COVID-19 by the country's far right preside…
Manifesting Democracy? Urban Protests and the Politics of Representation in Brazil Post-2013
Towards an Alternative 1922: Popular Culture and Rio de Janeiro's Vernacular Modernisms
This article explores cultural innovations taking place in Rio de Janeiro in 1922. The year evidenced numerous changes in the then capital. These have, though, been eclipsed by the dominant focus on avant-garde experimentations by modernist artists in São Paulo. Returning to 1922 and zooming in on Rio, this article explores transformations that altered the space of the city, and its popular cultural landscape. By doing so, the article seeks to wi…
In Memory Of Jean Franco
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