Rio of the movies made in Brazil made in everywhere
This thesis focuses on the representations of Rio de Janeiro in Brazilian cinema from the 1990s on and on U. ... cinema since de 1930s, especifically those films in which a North-American character travels to Rio and there experiences identification and alterity. ... In the case of Rio de Janeiro, the joint analysis of Brazilian and U. ... The duality of representations of the Carioca capital reveals itself generally in the opposition of images of landscapes and beautiful, internationally known sites, which come to identify and legitimate the city – the Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, for instance – to spaces of confinement, where supposedly chaos rules, such as decadent downtown Rio and the favelas.