José Carlos Avellar
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José Carlos Avellar (15 December 1936 – 18 March 2016) was a Brazilian film critic and essayist.[1]
Early life and education
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1936.
Career
Avellar worked for over twenty years as a film critic for the Jornal do Brasil. Avellar was also a film critic for Escrever Cinema and taught film at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. Avellar published six books on film theory, and co-authored dozens of studies on the Brazilian cinema and Latin America - including Le Cinéma brésilien (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Hojas de Cine (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico).
References
- ^ Crítico de cinema José Carlos Avellar morre aos 79 anos (in Portuguese)
External links
- "Escrever Cinema" Archived 2016-04-07 at the Wayback Machine official site for Avellar's film essays
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