Bruno Guaraná
Biographic Data
| ID | 6433573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruno Guaraná |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruno |
| FAMILY NAME | Guaraná |
| SIGNATURE | GUARANÁ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford University Press (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Of Lesbians and Werewolves
On its face, the Brazilian film Good Manners appears as a formalist exercise in genre hybridity. This article explores the pliability of melodrama and horror as these genres are adapted into the Brazilian production and reception contexts while applying an analytical framework that underscores and unravels the film’s explorations of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Classifying the film as “intersectional cinema,” the article argues that, in it…
Seeing Things
Discussion| March 01 2024 Seeing Things: A Conversation with Kartik Nair Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in cinema studies from New York University and his MA in film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian media.…
Movies under the Influence
Interactive Cinema
https://filmquarterly.org/2024/05/28/interactive-cinema-a-conversation-with-marina-hassapopoulou
Uncomfortable Television
Published version
Political Camerawork
Discussion| September 01 2023 Political Camerawork: A Conversation with D. Andy Rice Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in cinema studies from New York University and his MA in film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Braz…
Cinematic Guerrillas
Discussion| December 01 2023 Cinematic Guerrillas: A Conversation with Jie Li Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in cinema studies from New York University and his MA in film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian m…
The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
Published version
At the Edges of Sleep
BOOK DATA Jean Ma, At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators, Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. $34.95 paper; open access e-book. 280 pages.You know the feeling. You have lovingly dedicated a part of your day to uninterruptedly watching a film, but sometime before it is over you realize you haven’t been watching it. You try, but your body eventually succumbs to an uncontrollable somnolence. You doze off a few time…
Queer African Cinemas
Discussion| June 01 2022 Queer African Cinemas: A Conversation with Lindsey B. Green-Simms Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporar…
Twenty Queers of Madame Satã
FQ contributing editor Bruno Guaraná reviews the significance of the Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s groundbreaking Madame Satã on the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary. Guaraná argues that Madame Satã was a film ahead of its time. While in dialogue with queer theory and queer cinema contemporaneous to it—placing it squarely within a global queer film canon—it also anticipated now-current notions of transgressive representations of nonbin…
Hollywood’s Embassies
BOOK DATA Ross Melnick, Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power around the World. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. $145 cloth, $35.00 paper, $34.99 e-book. 496 pages.You may have seen Nicole Kidman last September, in a commercial for AMC theaters, stepping into an empty movie theater. “We come to this place for magic,” she says in voice-over, inviting patrons back into movie theaters after the hiatus forced by…
TV Snapshots
Discussion| September 01 2022 TV Snapshots: A Conversation with Lynn Spigel Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian med…
Cinematic TV
Discussion| September 01 2021 Cinematic TV: A Conversation with Rashna Wadia Richards Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Bra…
Realist Cinema as World Cinema
Tragedy Plus Time
Research Article| June 01 2021 Tragedy Plus Time: A Conversation with Philip Scepanski Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU, and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian media. He is currently the Page Views Editor …
Helena Ignez, an Incendiary Monster of Brazilian Cinema
Patrícia Mourão de Andrade offers an impassioned portrait of the actress and filmmaker Helena Ignez, a foundational figure in Brazilian filmmaking of the 1960s and 1970s. Long ignored by a national historiography blinded by its own patriarchal distortions, Ignez has only gained recognition in the last fifteen years for her contributions to Brazilian cinema. Moving behind the camera for the first time in 2005, Ignez has created a body of work that…
Martial Law Melodrama
Research Article| March 01 2020 Martial Law Melodrama: A Conversation with José B. Capino BOOK DATA José B. Capino, Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka's Cinema Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper. 328 pages. Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Coming from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU, and MA in Film fr…
Pluriversal Brazil
This conversation with directors Patricia Ferreira Pará Yxapy, André Novais Oliveira, Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Rolon, and Julia Katharine took place over email exchanges and recorded phone conversations in the weeks between late June and early late August of 2020. In lieu of a real conversation, in person or online, all of the interviewees were sent the same set of questions, upon which they were invited to reflect. The directors were chosen b…
Reuse, Misuse, Abuse
Research Article| December 08 2020 Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: A Conversation with Jaimie Baron Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU, and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian media. He is currently the Page Views Edit…
Sporting Blackness
Book Review| September 01 2020 Sporting Blackness: A Conversation with Samantha Sheppard BOOK DATA Samantha N. Sheppard, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $29.95 e-book. 264 pages. Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD…
“A Few Years from Now” in Western Pernambuco
In this essay, Bruno Guaraná argues that Bacurau presents a cinematic intervention that is twofold: first, into global genre cinema, as it disrupts generic conventions of both the Western and the horror film and relocates the narrative to the margins; and second, into Brazilian cinema—in particular, regarding its depictions of the sertão, or hinterland. Guaraná calls attention to the role played by the film’s narrative and musical soundscape in e…
Paris in the Dark
Book Review| June 01 2020 Paris in the Dark: A Conversation with Eric Smoodin BOOK DATA Eric Smoodin, Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. $99.95 cloth; $25.95 paperback. 224 pages. Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU, and MA in Fi…
Taís Araújo
Under the myth of racial democracy, Brazilian mainstream television has embraced a push toward more diverse representation, increasing in recent years the visibility of black individuals throughout its programming. Such diversity, however, operates within an ideology that masks the country's pervasive structural racial inequality. In this article, I analyze the racial and ideological significance of one of Brazil's most popular television celebri…
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Taís Araújo
Under the myth of racial democracy, Brazilian mainstream television has embraced a push toward more diverse representation, increasing in recent years the visibility of black individuals throughout its programming. Such diversity, however, operates within an ideology that masks the country's pervasive structural racial inequality. In this article, I analyze the racial and ideological significance of one of Brazil's most popular television celebri…
Martial Law Melodrama
Research Article| March 01 2020 Martial Law Melodrama: A Conversation with José B. Capino BOOK DATA José B. Capino, Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka's Cinema Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper. 328 pages. Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Coming from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU, and MA in Film fr…
Pluriversal Brazil
This conversation with directors Patricia Ferreira Pará Yxapy, André Novais Oliveira, Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Rolon, and Julia Katharine took place over email exchanges and recorded phone conversations in the weeks between late June and early late August of 2020. In lieu of a real conversation, in person or online, all of the interviewees were sent the same set of questions, upon which they were invited to reflect. The directors were chosen b…
Reuse, Misuse, Abuse
Research Article| December 08 2020 Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: A Conversation with Jaimie Baron Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU, and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian media. He is currently the Page Views Edit…
Sporting Blackness
Book Review| September 01 2020 Sporting Blackness: A Conversation with Samantha Sheppard BOOK DATA Samantha N. Sheppard, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $29.95 e-book. 264 pages. Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD…
“A Few Years from Now” in Western Pernambuco
In this essay, Bruno Guaraná argues that Bacurau presents a cinematic intervention that is twofold: first, into global genre cinema, as it disrupts generic conventions of both the Western and the horror film and relocates the narrative to the margins; and second, into Brazilian cinema—in particular, regarding its depictions of the sertão, or hinterland. Guaraná calls attention to the role played by the film’s narrative and musical soundscape in e…
Paris in the Dark
Book Review| June 01 2020 Paris in the Dark: A Conversation with Eric Smoodin BOOK DATA Eric Smoodin, Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. $99.95 cloth; $25.95 paperback. 224 pages. Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU, and MA in Fi…
Cinematic TV
Discussion| September 01 2021 Cinematic TV: A Conversation with Rashna Wadia Richards Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Bra…
Realist Cinema as World Cinema
Tragedy Plus Time
Research Article| June 01 2021 Tragedy Plus Time: A Conversation with Philip Scepanski Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU, and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian media. He is currently the Page Views Editor …
Helena Ignez, an Incendiary Monster of Brazilian Cinema
Patrícia Mourão de Andrade offers an impassioned portrait of the actress and filmmaker Helena Ignez, a foundational figure in Brazilian filmmaking of the 1960s and 1970s. Long ignored by a national historiography blinded by its own patriarchal distortions, Ignez has only gained recognition in the last fifteen years for her contributions to Brazilian cinema. Moving behind the camera for the first time in 2005, Ignez has created a body of work that…
At the Edges of Sleep
BOOK DATA Jean Ma, At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators, Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. $34.95 paper; open access e-book. 280 pages.You know the feeling. You have lovingly dedicated a part of your day to uninterruptedly watching a film, but sometime before it is over you realize you haven’t been watching it. You try, but your body eventually succumbs to an uncontrollable somnolence. You doze off a few time…
Queer African Cinemas
Discussion| June 01 2022 Queer African Cinemas: A Conversation with Lindsey B. Green-Simms Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporar…
Twenty Queers of Madame Satã
FQ contributing editor Bruno Guaraná reviews the significance of the Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s groundbreaking Madame Satã on the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary. Guaraná argues that Madame Satã was a film ahead of its time. While in dialogue with queer theory and queer cinema contemporaneous to it—placing it squarely within a global queer film canon—it also anticipated now-current notions of transgressive representations of nonbin…
Hollywood’s Embassies
BOOK DATA Ross Melnick, Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power around the World. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. $145 cloth, $35.00 paper, $34.99 e-book. 496 pages.You may have seen Nicole Kidman last September, in a commercial for AMC theaters, stepping into an empty movie theater. “We come to this place for magic,” she says in voice-over, inviting patrons back into movie theaters after the hiatus forced by…
TV Snapshots
Discussion| September 01 2022 TV Snapshots: A Conversation with Lynn Spigel Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian med…
Uncomfortable Television
Published version
Political Camerawork
Discussion| September 01 2023 Political Camerawork: A Conversation with D. Andy Rice Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in cinema studies from New York University and his MA in film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Braz…
Cinematic Guerrillas
Discussion| December 01 2023 Cinematic Guerrillas: A Conversation with Jie Li Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in cinema studies from New York University and his MA in film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian m…
The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
Published version
Seeing Things
Discussion| March 01 2024 Seeing Things: A Conversation with Kartik Nair Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is Master Lecturer of Film Studies in the Department of Film & Television at Boston University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in cinema studies from New York University and his MA in film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian media.…
Movies under the Influence
Interactive Cinema
https://filmquarterly.org/2024/05/28/interactive-cinema-a-conversation-with-marina-hassapopoulou
Of Lesbians and Werewolves
On its face, the Brazilian film Good Manners appears as a formalist exercise in genre hybridity. This article explores the pliability of melodrama and horror as these genres are adapted into the Brazilian production and reception contexts while applying an analytical framework that underscores and unravels the film’s explorations of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Classifying the film as “intersectional cinema,” the article argues that, in it…
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