Robert Stam is Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is the author of Subversive Pleasures and coauthor of Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, and Brazilian Cinema.

The Aftershocks of Slavery 25

The Structuring Absences of Silent Cinema 18981929 59

Carmen Miranda Grande Otelo and the Chanchada 19291949 79

Orson Welles in Brazil 1942 107

Hollywood in the Tropics 19491954 133

From Rio 40 Graus to Black Orpheus 19541959 157

Intimations of Blackness 19601962 179

Afro Brazilian Religion and the Banian Renaissance 19621963 205

From AutoCritique to Anthropophagy 19641971 233

The 1970s 257

Cultural VictoriesPolitical Defeats 287

Tropical Multiculturalism establishes Robert Stam as the foremost authority on the intersection of race, culture, and film in Brazil. Some think of blacks in Brazilian film as samba and sound but Stam liberates us all with a gorgeously argued relational text that is destined to become a classic in film criticism."—Robert Farris Thompson, Yale University



"With Tropical Multiculturalism, Robert Stam—one of the most sophisticated theorists of contemporary cultural representations—provides a much needed, historicized model for the analysis of non-European and Afro-diasporic cinemas and cultures."—Monthia Diawara, New York University