Multimodal Work-in-Progress

Bibliography

Banner: https://giphy.com/gifs/cool-transition-evolve-UbTJzFIorKVOLho3Pg 

Background: https://pixabay.com/photos/paper-old-texture-parchment-1074131/ 

Video Background: https://pixabay.com/photos/autumn-leaves-foliage-fall-111315/ 

Video Sources (in order they appear):

Intro / Hook

• Girl From Ipanema music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5QfXjsoNe4 

• City of God assorted scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxxDkwxtaic 

• Music Critic Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWCbGzxofU 

• Frank Sinatra Singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NldPFVKYmiw 

• Music after reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_qknpPA5JA 

• City of God poster: https://www.chssideline.com/post/once-upon-a-time-in-rio-film-review-of-city-of-god-2002-by-christopher-wostenberg 

Slides Background Music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jazz_at_Mladost_Club/Jazz_Night/Blue_bossa/ and https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jazz_at_Mladost_Club/Jazz_Night/C-mol_blues/ 

• Song Names: Blue Bossa and C-mol blues

• Artist: Jazz at Mladost Club

• licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Slides Intro / Table of Contents

• (Intro) City of God Poster: https://www.originalfilmart.com/products/city-of-god 

• (Ethnography) Nanook of the North Picture: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013427/ 

• (Heterotopia) Parable of the Sower Picture: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/parable-of-the-sower-a-graphic-novel-adaptation_9781419731334/ 

• (Plot) City of God Scene: https://www.wired.com/2016/08/olympics-2016-opening-ceremony-director/ 

• (Thesis) City of God St. Augustine Picture: https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/08/77128/ 

• (Scholarly Conversation) City of God Scene: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2013/1005/Brazil-City-of-God-10-years-later 

• (The Process) City of God art: https://www.behance.net/gallery/31815375/City-of-God 

• (Significance) Obama waving in City of God: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_de_Deus,_Rio_de_Janeiro#/media/File:Barack_Obama_-_Cit%C3%A9_de_Dieu.jpg

• Video Background Clips:

  • City of God assorted scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxxDkwxtaic 

Introduction

• City of God Favela Image: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Olympics/2016/0810/The-other-side-of-Rio-City-of-God-struggles-in-shadow-of-Olympic-Games 

• Jones, G. Maris. “Rethinking Racialized Cinema: a Critical Examination of Representations of Afro-Brazilians in City of God.” Film Matters, vol. VIII, no. 1, 2017, p. 5–11. Jones G. Maris is a doctoral student at University of Pennsylvania.

• Gun City of God Image: https://filmroot.com/2016/05/02/city-of-god/ 

• Oscars Image: https://www.oscars.org/videos-photos/76th-academy-awards-memorable-moments 

• Oscars Source: https://theoscarbuzz.blogspot.com/2014/11/failed-oscar-campaigns-city-of-god-2002.html 

• Rial y Costas, Gundo. “Spaces of Insecurity? The ‘Favelas’ of Rio de Janeiro between Stigmatization and Glorification.” Iberoamericana (2001-), vol. 11, no. 41, 2011, pp. 115–28. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41677308. Accessed 14 May 2023.

• Teresa P. R. Caldeira, and James Holston. “Democracy and Violence in Brazil.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 41, no. 4, 1999, pp. 691–729. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/179426. Accessed 8 May 2023.

• Video Background Clips:

  • City of God: 10 years later Rubens Sabino interview (25:10)

  • End Credits Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_qknpPA5JA 

  • Augustine Clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBAxUBeVfsk 

  • City of God drug war clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgxhkCKXyRs 

  • City of God oscars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA5GqYTJDp8 

Ethnography

• Ellis, Carolyn, et al. “Autoethnography: An Overview.” Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, vol. 36, no. 4 (138), 2011, pp. 273–90. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23032294. Accessed 10 May 2023.

• Video Background Clips:

  • Nanook of the North (example of Ethnography): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkW14Lu1IBo 

Heretotopia

• Reid-Pharr, Robert F. “Disseminating Heterotopia.” African American Review, vol. 28, no. 3, 1994, pp. 347–57. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3041971. Accessed 10 May 2023. 

• Risner, Jonathan. “Lo continuo y lo discontinuo: las heterotopías cinematográficas y el cine de género latinoamericano contemporáneo.” Hispanófila, no. 177, 2016, pp. 207–20. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/90012343. Accessed 10 May 2023.

• Video Background Clips:

  • City of God Behind the Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeGHpbUT7Xo 

Plot / Thesis

• Video Background Clips:

  • City of God opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QujbbyEUXjo 

  • Lil Ze's Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeN0t2sZaP4 

Scholarly Conversation

• Afolabi, Niyi. “Film and Fragmentation.” Afro-Brazilians: Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy. University of Rochester Press, 2009, pp. 169-193.

• Jones, G. Maris. “Rethinking Racialized Cinema: a Critical Examination of Representations of Afro-Brazilians in City of God.” Film Matters, vol. VIII, no. 1, 2017, p. 5–11.

• Cano, Ignacio, et al. “Brazil.” Transnational Organized Crime: Analyses of a Global Challenge to Democracy, edited by Regine Schönenberg and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Transcript Verlag, 2013, pp. 179–210. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1fxh0d.16. Accessed 10 May 2023. 

• Teresa P. R. Caldeira, and James Holston. “Democracy and Violence in Brazil.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 41, no. 4, 1999, pp. 691–729. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/179426. Accessed 8 May 2023.

• McClennen, Sophia A. “From the Aesthetics of Hunger to the Cosmetics of Hunger in Brazilian Cinema: Meirelles’ City of God.” Symplokē, vol. 19, no. 1–2, 2011, pp. 95–106. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.19.1-2.0095. Accessed 26 May 2023.

• M V Bill. “Cidade de Deus: History's Silent Protagonist.” City of God in Several Voices : Brazilian Social Cinema as Action. Critical, Cultural and Communication Press, 2005.

• Ellis, Carolyn, et al. “Autoethnography: An Overview.” Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, vol. 36, no. 4 (138), 2011, pp. 273–90. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23032294. Accessed 10 May 2023.

• Gonzaga, Elmo. “The Cinematographic Unconscious of Slum Voyeurism.” Cinema Journal, vol. 56, no. 4, 2017, pp. 102–25. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44867842. Accessed 10 May 2023.

• Reid-Pharr, Robert F. “Disseminating Heterotopia.” African American Review, vol. 28, no. 3, 1994, pp. 347–57. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3041971. Accessed 10 May 2023. 

• Risner, Jonathan. “Lo continuo y lo discontinuo: las heterotopías cinematográficas y el cine de género latinoamericano contemporáneo.” Hispanófila, no. 177, 2016, pp. 207–20. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/90012343. Accessed 10 May 2023.

• Lorenz, Aaron. “Paulo Lins’s ‘Cidade de Deus’: Mapping Racial and Class Difference in the ‘Favela.’” Afro-Hispanic Review, vol. 29, no. 2, 2010, pp. 81–96.

• Gatti, André. “City of God: A Landmark in Brazilian Film Language.” City of God in Several Voices : Brazilian Social Cinema as Action. Critical, Cultural and Communication Press, 2005.

• Marcato, De Medeiros. “Commercial Genre in Evidence: Does the Film City of God Manipulate Reality?” 452°F: Revista de Teoría de La Literatura y Literatura Comparada, no. 2, 2010, pp. 80–95

• Rial y Costas, Gundo. “Spaces of Insecurity? The ‘Favelas’ of Rio de Janeiro between Stigmatization and Glorification.” Iberoamericana (2001-), vol. 11, no. 41, 2011, pp. 115–28. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41677308. Accessed 14 May 2023.

• Video Background Clips:

  • City of God opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QujbbyEUXjo 

Significance:

• Video Background Clips:

  • City of God Behind the Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeGHpbUT7Xo