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Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1928) is arguably the most influential Brazilian film director after Glauber Rocha (1939–1981), having been cited as a reference by a number of Brazilian filmmakers, from Rocha himself to Walter Salles.1 Although Pereira dos Santos has often been identified with Cinema Novo, he actually belongs to an older generation. Since his debut, a few years before the Brazilian Nouvelle Vague of the 1960s, Pereira dos Santos pioneered themes, approaches, and aesthetic formats that were subsequently taken up by other Brazilian directors. To contain his 50-year-old career strictly within the scope of Cinema Novo is an oversimplification of the importance of his work for Brazilian cinema.
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Moreira, P. (2013). Nelson Pereira dos Santos and the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema. In: Literary and Cultural Relations between Brazil and Mexico. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137377357_9
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