Entre o mito e a história: as adaptações de Duas vezes com Helena, de Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes

This article analyzes aspects of the films Ao sul de meu corpo (1982) and Duas vezes com Helena (2001), which are adaptations of the short story Duas vezes com Helena, published in 1977 by Paulo Emilio Sales Gomes, the film critic and founder of the Brazilian Cinematheque. In his text, Paulo Emilio...

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Main Author: Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2010-01-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/58334
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Entre o mito e a história: as adaptações de Duas vezes com Helena, de Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
dictatorship
myth
censorship
cinema
Brasil
title Entre o mito e a história: as adaptações de Duas vezes com Helena, de Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes
title_full Entre o mito e a história: as adaptações de Duas vezes com Helena, de Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes
title_fullStr Entre o mito e a história: as adaptações de Duas vezes com Helena, de Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes
title_full_unstemmed Entre o mito e a história: as adaptações de Duas vezes com Helena, de Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes
title_short Entre o mito e a história: as adaptações de Duas vezes com Helena, de Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes
title_sort entre o mito e a historia as adaptacoes de duas vezes com helena de paulo emilio sales gomes
topic dictatorship
myth
censorship
cinema
Brasil
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