Brazilian history

one 750-word secondary document Film or CD review 

Assignment 2: Secondary Document:

one 750-word secondary document Film or CD review 25% – hard-copy in class due Tuesday April 7, 2020

• For Film review:
• It should be chosen from the film list below and must contain, the following elements: (title and credit details); (story, historical context and interpretation); and your views on the film.

Identify:

• Scope: [what is it about?]
• Thesis: [what is the central argument?]
• Evidence to Support Thesis:
• Value: [critical analysis]: Value of the artice or book – were you convinced by the argument; did the evidence support the thesis, was the evidence meaningful or trivial, solid or flimsy

you need to choose one film and write 750 words review!!!!

List of films

• The Spirit of Samba: The Black Music of Brazil,       Jeremy Marre, Sanachie.
  “Planet Food–Brazil”,                                                          with Merriless Parker [“The Nigella Lawson  of the Jungle”]
  Aguirre, the Wrath of God,                              Werner Herzog, 1973. 

• The Mission ,                                                                            Roland Joffe, 1986.S

• 1492: The Conquest of Paradise                             Ridley Scott, 1992

• The Music of Brazil–                                                              narrated by Gilberto Gil, episode on The North and Amazonia.
• Moro No Brasil-The Sound of Brazil                                Mika Kaurismaki, MagnaTel, 2005.

• Samba [videorecording] : popular music of Brazil    Frémeaux & Associés : G2 Films, c2005.

• Nutrition and the Amazon food pharmacy,                  C.: Environmental Media, Corp , c1995.

• 
  “Brazil: An Inconvenient History”                                   London, BBC, 2000.
• “Bananas is My Business”,                                                  documentary on Carmen Miranda by Helena Solberg (1994),
• “Bye bye Brasil’ ,                                                                     written and directed by Carlos Diegues, NY : Fox Lorber, c1989.

• “Bossa nova: o som que seduziu o mundo” = Bossa nova : the sound that seduced the world.

• “Raiz Forte” The Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil (MST) 2001.“The Kayapó : Out of the Forest”, (1989) [AV 981.00489 K232]
  Payakan, a junior chief of the Kayapo Indian tribe of central Brazil organises several rival tribes to protest at Aetamira (400 miles away), against the building of a hydro-electric dam on the Xingu River. Such development would flood the Kayapo villages and would destroy the traditional Kayapo culture. The popular music singer Sting makes an appearance on behalf of the Kayapo cause.“
• The Burning Season –The Chico Mendes Story”        John Frankenheimer(1994)

• “Waste land”                                                                                an Almega Projects and 02 Filmes production ; dir. by Lucy Walker  Almega Projects, c2009.
  “Cidade de Deus” (City of God) (2002) ,“Cidade dos Homens” (City of Men) (2007