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Portuguese Language, Literature & Culture
Guide to print and online sources for Portuguese. UTSA does not offer courses in Portuguese.
Streaming Video from UTSA
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowDigitally streams thousands of popular films and documentaries, as well as educational videos in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Business, and K-12 Education. Includes distributors such as PBS, Criterion Collection, Film Movement, Flicker Alley, and California Newsreel.
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Feature Films on DVD
- Second Mother (¿Que horas ela volta?) (2015)When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray. PN1997.E9 S436 2016
- The Summer of the Gods (2014)Young girl unites with her Afro-Brazilian religious ancestry.
PN1997.E9 S866 2014 - City of God (Cidade de Deus) (2002)Young man who grows up in Rio de Janeiro and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.
PN1997 .C573 2003 - Only When I Dance (2009)Two teenagers from Rio de Janeiro pursue the dream of becoming professional ballet dancers.
GV1638.R52 O55 2010
DVD and Streaming Kanopy - Black Orpheus (1959)Legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Rio de Janeiro at Carnival time. PN1997.E9 B5335
1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - Alice's House : A Casa de Alice (2007)Middle-aged woman has a chance meeting with an old boyfriend.
- Heleno (2011)Brazilian-born Heleno de Freitas conquered the soccer world in the 1940s.
- Doméstica = Housemaids (2012)Documentary. Footage of housemaids filmed by seven adolescents over the course of one week.
- The Year My Parents Went on VacationMauro is a 12-year-old boy, who is left to fend for himself when his parents 'go on vacation' during the military dictatorship in 1970's Brazil.
- Doña Flor and Her two Husbands (Doña Flor e Seus Dois Maridos) (1977)When a beautiful young woman remarries after her erotic first husband unexpectedly dies, she misses the passion of her first marriage. Then the ghost of her first husband seeks her out. Based on the novel by the renowned Brazilian author Jorge Amado Doña Flor and Her two Husband: A Moral and Amorous Tale
- Bye Bye Brazil (1980)Caravana Rolidei with the Gypsy Lord doing magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength.
- Me You Them ( Eu, tu, eles) (2000)Comedy. "The film weds the humor and magic of a folk tale to a very modern feel for the psychological dynamics between men and women, and for the subtle politics of male rivalry in a macho culture."
- Hour of the Star (1986)"This striking adaptation of the canonical novel by Clarice Lispector tracks the tragicomic ordeals of Macabéa during her first days in the megalopolis of São Paulo-- after emigrating from the impoverished north of Brazil"
- The Man Who Copied (2003)André prints money to shop at the expensive store of the woman he loves.
- Central Station (1998)When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing.
- Pixote (1980)Pixote escapes from the reform school where he and his friends hit the streets alone, embarking on a life of violence and crime.
- Bus 174 (2002)A powerful, award-winning examination of the tragic series of events that followed a desperate bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro in 2000
- Mistérios de Lisboa (2010) (streaming)Also on DVD PN1997.E9 M978 2011
- Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa1. Ossos (1997)
2. In Vanda's Room (2000)
3. Colossal Youth (2006)
PN1997.E9 L4885 2010 - Fados (2007)Portugal's emblematic musical genre, fado, and its spirit of saudade (melancholy).
M1781 .F33 2009 DVD