Nosferato in Brazil: Vampires, Military Dictatorship and Pop Culture
Título (EN)
Nosferato in Brazil: Vampires, Military Dictatorship and Pop Culture
Autor(es)
Laura Loguercio Cánepa
Instituição
Universidade Paulista
Tipo
Artigo
Publicado em
Bulletin of theTransilvaniaUniversity of Braşov Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies • Vol. 18(67) No. 1, 2025
Resumo (EN)
This study investigates the vampires’ hideaway in the Brazilian movie fiction. We suggest that these monsters, after facing a myriad of obstacles in their adaptation to the Brazilian cinema, ended up finding shelter for their eternal bloody existence in the most fragile of the audiovisual media: the Super-8. The focus of our analysis is on Nosferato no Brasil (Ivan Cardoso, 1971), one of the most famous films of the Brazilian Super-8 era in the 1970s. We aim to describe how Nosferato was created out of a repertoire consisting of several references to the pop culture of the 1950s and 1960s.
Resumo
This study investigates the vampires’ hideaway in the Brazilian movie fiction. We suggest that these monsters, after facing a myriad of obstacles in their adaptation to the Brazilian cinema, ended up finding shelter for their eternal bloody existence in the most fragile of the audiovisual media: the Super-8. The focus of our analysis is on Nosferato no Brasil (Ivan Cardoso, 1971), one of the most famous films of the Brazilian Super-8 era in the 1970s. We aim to describe how Nosferato was created out of a repertoire consisting of several references to the pop culture of the 1950s and 1960s.
Palavras-chave
Brazilian cinema, Super-8, Pop culture, Vampire, Ivan Cardoso
