Politics, Memory, and Working Class Life in the Commercial Biopic Lula, Son of Brazil

Authors

  • John French Duke University
  • Antonio Luigi Negro Universidade Federal da Bahia

Keywords:

Films, Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, memory, class

Abstract

Review of Lula, Filho do Brasil [Lula, Son of Brazil], directed by Fábio Barreto.

Author Biographies

John French, Duke University

John D. French, profesor de historia y de estudios africanos y afroamericanosen la Universidad de Duke, actualmente termina un manuscrito que se titula Lula’s Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the Brazilian Presidency. Es coautor con Alexandre Fortes de "Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy, and Combating Inequalities in Brazil: Lula, the Workers´ Party, and Dilma Rousseff's 2010 Election as President”, publicado en Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (2012).

Antonio Luigi Negro, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Antonio Luigi Negro, profesor de historia en la Universidade Federal da Bahia (Salvador, Brasil), es el autor de Linhas de Montagem. O Industrialismo Nacional-Desenvolvimentista e a Sindicalização dos Trabalhadores (Boitempo,2004), y recibió una beca para hacer investigación del CNPq y Capes.

Published

2011-10-11

How to Cite

French, J., & Negro, A. L. (2011). Politics, Memory, and Working Class Life in the Commercial Biopic Lula, Son of Brazil. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 8(3), 377–394. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/161

Issue

Section

Reviews: Brazil: Cultural History, Politics and Race