How we perceive Brazilian women

Which of the female characters presented in class had the strongest impact on you?

(Xica da Silva, Dona Flor and her Two Husbands, Lower City)

Do you feel that the female characters from Brazilian cinema presented in class were shot from a voyeuristic POV?

Hip Hop & Baile Funk

Comment on:

Brazilian Hip Hop vs USAmerican Hip Hop

Gangster Rap vs Rap Prohibidao

The global journey of beats in the formation of Baile Funk music

Rappin' Hood

Marcelo D2

Racionais MC's

DIPLO

Download Baile Funk Mixes

Brazilian Graffiti in the streets & sewers & gallery

Purple State of Mind returns!

Encore Screening of Purple State of Mind at the RiverRun Film Festival this Sunday 4/27 at 4PM at the Sawtooth Center. 

Voices of Resistance: Rap Proibidao

Wiki on Proibidao

Gilles Peterson podcast Hip Hop na casa

Rap das Armas vs Tropa de Elite

BBC's Brazil's booming economy

Violence in Brazil

Manda Bala

Which character in this documentary was most sympathetic and why?

Hows does corruption in Brazil and the United States differ?

Your thoughts on the editorial juxtapositions in the film.

Reading Assignment

Wiki on Funk

Machine Gun Voices: Bandits, Favelas, and Utopia in Brazilian Funk

Cidade dos Homens (Film)

Stereotype?

Realistic Portrayal?

Cidade dos Homens (TV)

Your thoughts on the complexity of the cycle of violence in the favelas of Rio.

 

Comment on the filmmaking techniques in City of Men, The Emperor's Crown.

Discuss the seamless transition between narrative and documentary footage.

Did the narrative realistically portray issues of life in the favelas as presented in the two class handouts?

City of Men Mash Up