Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Influencing understandings of Brazilianness in O Aleijadinho: Paixão, glória e suplício (2000)
  • Modeling national identity on religious identity in Cafundó (2005)
  • Multiple, provisional, national identity models in Quilombo (1984)
  • Alternative understandings of the national community in Chico Rei (1985)
  • Flirting with viewers and precariously rethinking Brazilianness in Xica da Silva (1976).