On the road movie genre in Brasil: a romance, a Tv series and a road movie

Authors

  • Samuel Paiva Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-677X.rum.2009.51167

Keywords:

Road movie, Brazil, cinema, literature, television.

Abstract

This article contributes to the debate on the definition of movie and TV genres. It discusses road movies in Brazil, considering its interactions between movies, television and literature. This theme starts with the
novel “Jorge, a Brazilian” (1967), written by Oswaldo França Jr. The book was adapted to the cinema in a homonymous film directed by Paulo Thiago (in 1989). A TV series called “Heavy Weight”, produced by Globo Television Network (with discontinued seasons between 1979 and 2007) was also based on this novel. This article shows that road movies in Brazil have considerable differences if compared with its context in the United States of America, a country which is sometimes considered to be the birthplace of this movie genre.

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Author Biography

  • Samuel Paiva, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil.
    Professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil. samuelpaiva@ufscar.br.

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Published

2009-12-21

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 6 (2009)

Section

Dossier

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How to Cite

On the road movie genre in Brasil: a romance, a Tv series and a road movie. RuMoRes, [S. l.], v. 3, n. 6, 2009. DOI: 10.11606/issn.1982-677X.rum.2009.51167. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/Rumores/article/view/51167.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.