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

  • John French Duke University
  • Antonio Luigi Negro Universidade Federal da Bahia
Keywords Films, Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, memory, class
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.
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Published
2011-10-11
Issue
Vol. 8 No. 3 (2011): Spring 2011
Section
Reviews: Brazil: Cultural History, Politics and Race