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Randal Johnson
Distinguished Professor

Department of Spanish & Portuguese
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California 90095-1532
(310) 206-3116
Fax: (310) 206-4757
randalj@humnet.ucla.edu

Research Interests

Brazilian Literature and Culture, Sociology of Literature and Culture, Latin American Cinema, Cultural Policy

Selected Publications

Books

Manoel de Oliveira. University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Antônio das Mortes. Wiltshire, UK: Flicks Books, 1998.

Black Brazil: Culture, Identity and Social Mobilization. Co-edited with Larry Crook. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1999.

Brazilian Cinema. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1982, 373 pp. Rpt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988. Co-edited with Robert Stam. Expanded edition, New York: Columbia University Press. 1995.

Cinema Novo x 5: Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984.

The Film Industry in Brazil: Culture and the State. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987.

Literatura e Cinema: Macunaíma do Modernismo na Literatura ao Cinema Novo. São Paulo: Thomaz A. Queiroz, 1982.

Pierre Bourdieu. The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 1993. Editor, author of introduction. U.S. edition: New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Tropical Paths: Essays on Modern Brazilian Literature. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993. Organizer, editor, author of introduction.

Articles

“Frei Luís de Sousa.” In O Cinema Português através dos seus Filmes. Ed. Carolin Overhoff Ferreira. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007, 65-71.

“The Brazilian Retomada and Global Hollywood.” In History and Society: Argentinian and Brazilian Cinema since the 1980s. Ed. Gastón Lillo and Walter Moser. Ottawa: Legas Publishing, 2007, 87-100.

"Post-Cinema Novo Brazilian Cinema." In Traditions in World Cinema. Ed. Linda Bradley, R. Barton Palmer and Steven Jay Schneider. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, 117-129.

"Aniki-Bóbó." In The Cinema of Spain and Portugal. Ed. Alberto Mira. London/New York: Wallflower Press, 2005, 40-49.

"Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo." In The Cinema of Spain and Portugal. Ed. Alberto Mira. London/New York: Wallflower Press, 2005, 208-217.

"TV Globo, the MPA and Contemporary Brazilian Cinema" In Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender and National Identity. Ed. Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison. North Carolina: McFarland, 2005, 11-38.

"Brazilian Narrative." In The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Culture. Ed. John King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 119-135.

"Against the Grain: On The Cinematic Vision of Manoel de Oliveira." In Senses of Cinema 28, September-October 2003. www.sensesofcinema.com

"Literatura e Cinema, Diálogo e Recriação: O Caso de Vidas Secas." In Literatura, Cinema e Televisão. São Paulo: SENAC, Itaú Cultural, 2003, 37-59.

"Glauber Rocha and Cinema Novo," in Homage to Glauber Rocha and Brazilian Cinema Novo. Jeonju, South Korea: Jeonju International Film Festival, 2003, 3-9. Korean translation, 10-14.

"The Brazilian Film Industry." In The International Movie Industry. Ed. Gorham Kindem. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000, 257-272.

“Departing from Central Station: Notes on the Reemergence of Brazilian Cinema.”The Brazil e-Journal (a publication of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, DC), Spring 2000.

"The Celebration." In World Literature and Its Times. Vol. 1. Latin American Literature and Its Times. Ed. J. Moss and L. Valestuk. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999, 73-83.

"Brazilian Modernism: An Idea out of Place?" In Modernism and its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America. Ed. A.L. Geist and J.B. Monleón. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999, 186-214.

"Documentary Discourses and National Identity: Humberto Mauro's Brasiliana Series and Linduarte Noronha's Aruanda."Nuevo Texto Critico XI: 21/22 (1998), 193-206.

"New Beginnings, Old Beginnings." Cinema Novo & Beyond. Ed. Joao Luiz Vieira. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1998, 19-32.

"Notes on the Structures of Literary Authority in Brazil." Mester XXIV:1 (Spring 1995), 3-18.

"Film Policy in Latin America."In Film Policy: International, National and Regional Perspectives. Ed. Albert Moran. London: Routledge, 1996, 128-147.

"The Dynamics of the Brazilian Literary Field, 1930-1945."Luso-Brazilian Review, 31:3 (Winter 1994), 5-22. Expanded Portuguese translation: "A dinâmica do campo literário brasileiro, 1930-1945," tr. Antônio Dimas, Revista USP (Universidade de São Paulo), 1995.

"As Relações Sociais da Literatura Brasileira." Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, XX:40 (1994), 189-203.

"Regarding the Philanthropic Ogre: Cultural Policy in Brazil, 1930-1945/1964-1990." In Constructing Culture and Power in Latin America, ed. Daniel Levine. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993, 311-356.

"In the Belly of the Ogre: Cinema and State in Latin America." In Mediating Two Worlds: The Americas and Europe 1492-1992, ed. Manuel Alvarado, John King and Ana López. London: British Film Institute, 1993, 204-213.

"Art and Intention in Mário de Andrade." Homenagem a Alexandrino Severino: Essays on the Portuguese-Speaking World, ed. Marshall C. Eakin and Margo Milleret. Austin: Host Publications, 1993, 167-179.

"Pierre Bourdieu on Art, Literature and Culture."In The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. Ed. Randal Johnson. Cambridge: Polity Press 1993, 1-25.

"Literature, Film and Politics in Brazil: Reflections on the Generation of 1968." In Tropical Paths: Essays on Modern Brazilian Literature. Ed. Randal Johnson. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, 183-198.

"The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Cinema, 1960-1990."Iris: A Journal of Theory of Image and Sound, 13 (Summer 1991), 97-124.

"O futuro nos pertence. E agora, que fazer?: The Estado Novo and the Social Relations of Brazilian Literature."In Toward Socio-Criticism: Selected Proceedings of the Conference 'Luso-Brazilian Literatures, A Socio-Critical Approach.' Ed. Roberto Reis. Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University (1991), 101-113.

"Literature and Popular Culture: Appropriation and Social Reproduction." Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 10 (1991), 9-23.

"The Institutionalization of Brazilian Modernism."Brasil/Brazil: A Journal of Brazilian Literature, 3:4 (1990), 5-23.

Articles, 1977-1989

Professional Information

Education

1977: Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
1974: M.A., University of Texas, Austin
1970: B.A., University of Texas, Arlington

Previous Academic Appointments

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida, 1983-1994
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, 1977-1983

Randal JohnsonDistinguished Professor

Randal Johnson
Distinguished Professor