About the Author

Glauber Rocha (1939-1981) is Brazil’s most important filmmaker and founder of the 1960s and ‘70s Cinema Novo movement. His films are landmarks of Brazilian and world film history. He was also a prolific writer and film critic, whose critical thought made a decisive contribution to the notion of Third Cinema. Ismail Xavier is Professor of Film at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His book Allegories of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema (1997) marks a milestone in Brazilian cinema studies. Editorial co-ordination by Lúcia Nagib, University of Reading, UK. Translation by Cecília Mello, Stephanie Dennison and Charlotte Smith

Reviews

To read On Cinema is to cling to an intellectual bucking bronco, to follow the coursing convolutions of a racing mind. You may emerge bruised from the experience but, if you manage to catch on to Rocha's crashing, juddering cadence, it's a hell of a ride.
*Sight & Sound*

This essential volume happily doubles as a delirious memoir of the golden era of arthouse film distribution (with Rocha simultaneously praising and disputing the work of his contemporaries), but it also bombards the reader with breathtaking manifestos from one page to the next.
*The Brooklyn Rail*

You might say that On Cinema, a compilation of the Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha’s writings, is cinema … Rocha reveals himself to be the ‘60s cineaste par excellence.
*Film Comment*

Invaluable ... A rich assembly of articles drawn from three separate collections of Rocha’s writing ... An essential guide.
*Cineaste*