2017. November. 17th. Lisa Shaw – Afro-Brazilian performance on Rio de Janeiro’s popular stages

17 Nov 2017

Friday 17th November – 16:00 – O'Rahilly Building 1.24

Lisa Shaw is a Reader in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of The Social History of the Brazilian Samba (1999), and co-author (with Stephanie Dennison) of Popular Cinema in Brazil (2004) and Brazilian National Cinema (2007). She co-edited (with Rob Stone) the book Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema (2012), and was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to complete a research project entitled ‘Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Culture Abroad, 1870-1945’ in 2012.