Courtney J. Campbell, "Region Out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924-1968" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
New Books in Latin American Studies
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'Four Men on a Rift'
Orson Wells was making a film that had several chapters in it, and he that one of those chapters would be on brazilian carnival. One of them would focus on this 19 forty one fishermen's raid. He wanted to use the actual fishermen as actors. And with the carnival chapter, he also wanted to used the act artists and carnival goers as the actors. This became problematicfor several reasons when jacquere dies during the filming. Ah, there is but also that the the fisherman were lauded as these amazing bBrazilians,. These resilient, stoic northeasterners. But once they entered hollywood and and were to be projected on this international screen, then it
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