A tough woman of Pernambuco: Nancy Wanderley in the Brazilian musical movie comedy (1954-1960)
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2012.71140Keywords:
Brazilian cinema and Northeastern, Brazilian cinema and Northeastern Brazilian woman, Brazilian cinema and gender stereotypes, Nancy Wanderley.Abstract
This essay aims to examine how the carioca actress Nancy
Wanderley Rio built the kind of brave Pernambuco woman,
especially regarding the use of physical force, in most of its stake
in carioca musical comedy film, the slapstick, from a stereotype
of women Northeast consolidated in the ballad Paraíba. For that
investigates the historical origins of the term, the transformation of
that song in musical success as well as the audiovisual appearance
of his matrix, the Madame Pau-Pereira in É fogo na roupa (1952).
Here, we analyze five films: O petróleo é nosso (1954), No mundo
da lua (1958), O camelô da rua larga (1958), Quem roubou meu
samba? and Samba em Brasília (1960).
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