“Highly recommended.”

I. M. Wilson, Wabash College | Choice

“Remaking Brazil is an important addition to the growing bibliography on films of the so-called ‘retomada’ or renaissance of Brazilian cinema that began in the mid-1990s, and is essential reading for students and scholars working in this field. It will also appeal to a general readership with an interest in contemporary cinema of Brazilian culture.”

Lisa Shaw, University of Liverpool

“This book offers the English reader, for the first time, an overarching picture of Brazil’s thriving contemporary film production. Tatiana Signorelli Heise has devised an insightful method to tackle its complexity by focusing on the recurrent trope of brasilidade, that is, the idea of national belonging. The categories she establishes in order to organize her vast material—‘celebratory,’ ‘reformist,’ ‘oppositional,’ and ‘alternative’—are bound to become common currency among film scholars. Bold in its assertions and unafraid of canonical theories, Remaking Brazil is a compelling testament to the resilience of the nation in the transnational era.”

Lúcia Nagib, University of Leeds