Football, national culture and politics in Brazil in 1970

Capraro, André Mendes; Vargas, Pauline Peixoto Iglesias

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“…The film also stays close to the definition of national identity as it was expressed in the book Brazilian Culture and National Identity , which suggests that “Brazilian identity is a historical construction created by the local intellectual elite, based mainly on the reinterpretation of popular regional elements. Given the country's ethnic‐racial multiplicity, the idea of a single representative identity across the country does not correspond to the reality of Brazilian life” (Capraro and Vargas 196). However, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation presents soccer as a unifying force and as something that contributes to how Brazilians see themselves and their national identity.…”

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“…The Year My Parents Went on Vacation is also a movie that portrays national identity. As Capraro and Vargas argue, “The movie uses memorialistic reconstruction to elevate football practice to a higher level of cultural expression, intensified by the World Cup context” (196). The film engages its viewers by raising questions: can a country who experiences an economic calamity be united by having the success of the soccer national team strengthen its national identity?…”

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Soccer as a National Pastime and its Role in the Lives of Traditional Communities in Cao Hamburger's Coming of Age Film: The Year my Parents Went on Vacation

Machlev¹

2023

The J of Popular Culture

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Soccer as a National Pastime and its Role in the Lives of Traditional Communities in Cao Hamburger's Coming of Age Film: The Year my Parents Went on Vacation

Machlev¹

2023

The J of Popular Culture

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“…Seen, in our analysis, in reappropriation and alignment of memories of Brazil's 1970 Football World Cup victory to current political attitudes and desires for a nostalgic turn to a certain irretrievable socio-cultural landscape. 26 As discussed shortly, the politicization of memory and quest for memory commonality provides the foundation for this paper.…”

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Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-19

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Kondlatsch

2022

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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In March 2020 -following the rapid increase of cases in the countryseveral Brazilian sports leagues momentarily ceased to slow the virus spread among the population. Despite the record number of deaths caused by the disease, most of these leagues restarted by mid-July. Brazilian TV channels offered football match reruns as an alternative to fill weekly schedule gaps. Therefore, within a somewhat dystopian context of political chaos, deep economic recession and unparalleled public health crisis, the most-watched sports channel in the country, SporTV, decided to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of Brazil's third FIFA World Cup title at the 1970 men's tournament by rerunning the six matches played by the successful national football team (aka Seleção), from April 14 to the 19 and on June 21. Focusing on Twitter, this article demonstrates how the moment provided content for social media narratives about the country's assumed 'glorious' past, its fractured contemporary state and uncertain futures. In doing so, we offer insights into the complexities of memory craft within sport histories and nationmaking practices.

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Sport, Film, and the Cultural Imaginary

Crosson¹

2022

The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society

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Codified sport and the cinema emerged contemporaneously in the second half of the 19th century, and from the earliest film productions, sport was prominently featured and contributed significantly to the new art form’s growing popularity. Sport would subsequently become one of commercial cinema’s most enduring and popular topics, though scholarship of the area (and identification of a specific genre) was slower to develop. While identifying salient aspects of depictions of sport’s fiction on film, this chapter examines the development of the relevant critical discourse and the major foci therein, including sport cinema’s role in articulating and influencing understandings of broader sociocultural themes such as race, social class, gender, and nationalism.

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Football, national culture and politics in Brazil in 1970

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Soccer as a National Pastime and its Role in the Lives of Traditional Communities in Cao Hamburger's Coming of Age Film: The Year my Parents Went on Vacation

Soccer as a National Pastime and its Role in the Lives of Traditional Communities in Cao Hamburger's Coming of Age Film: The Year my Parents Went on Vacation

Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-19

Sport, Film, and the Cultural Imaginary

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