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Brazilian film studies
Brazilian gender norms
Brazilian urban studies
Brazilian urbanization
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Culture in Rio de Janeiro
Culture in Sao Paulo
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History of Brazil
Latin American film studies
Latin American gender norms
Latin American studies
Modern Brazil
sexual morality in Brazil
South American urban studies
urbanization of Brazil
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- ISBN 9780822967842
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2025
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Gender and sexual morality, and their intersections with race and class, were central to the formation of urban Brazil in the twentieth century. In the Darkness of the Cinema takes a wide-ranging and innovative approach to gender and moviegoing culture in Brazilian society. By focusing on the flirtations and romances of the movie theater, as well as the intrigue and moral panic that they caused, Suk creates a rich portrait of spectatorship. Where women went to the movies, who they met, and what they did in the darkness were key questions that brewed among overlapping but disparate circles, from film intellectuals and filmmakers to legislators and public health officials, as well as the moviegoers themselves. Amassing sources located traditionally within culture as well as outside of it, such as film magazines, interviews, comics, literature, and songs, Suk shows that movie theaters and moviegoers made an indelible mark on the urban landscape of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Lena Oak Suk is a cultural historian of Brazil. She is a research affiliate at the Institute of Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work on gender and popular culture has been published in the Journal of Social History and the Latin American Research Review.
