Author Gustavo Furtado

Gustavo Furtado

Gustavo Procopio Furtado is Associate Professor in the departments of Romance Studies and Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. His work focuses on Latin American cinema and cultural studies, ethnographic and indigenous filmmaking, and on questions related to media theory and ecology. His book Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil (OUP, 2019) won the Antonio Candido Prize for Best Book in the Humanities, awarded by the Latin American Studies Association.

Macunaíma

Gustavo Furtado

October 2023

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With vibrant tropical colours and a penchant for the grotesque, Macunaíma (1969) is a strange but delightful masterpiece of Brazilian cinema. Its creator, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (1932-1988), was one of best d...