Review: Lisa Shaw Carmen Miranda London: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. I recently reviewed the first three books in this series: Martin Shingler’s Star Studies: A Critical Guide, Ginette Vincendeau on Brigitte Bardot, Susan Smith on Elizabeth Taylor and Pam Cook’s Nicole Kidman. The review will appear in the Celebrity Studies journal. Shingler’s text is an overview…
Tag: Brazilian cinema
Latin American “Third” Cinema and its Legacies
A two-day colloquium at the University of Oxford, 9th-10th March 2012, on “third” cinema, was both stimulating and varied. What is “third” cinema? The inverted commas were, no doubt a deliberate acknowledgement of the difficulties involved in using the word “third”, due to its links to third worldism and the first world/third world divide that…