Nosferato in Brazil: Vampires, Military Dictatorship and Pop Culture
This study investigates the vampires’ hideaway in the Brazilian movie fiction. We suggest that these monsters, after facing a myriad of obstacles in their adaptation to the Brazilian cinema, ended up finding shelter for their eternal bloody existence in the most fragile of the audiovisual media: the Super-8. The focus of our analysis is on Nosferato no Brasil (Ivan Cardoso, 1971), one of the most famous films of the Brazilian Super-8 era in the 1970s. We aim to describe how Nosferato was created out of a repertoire consisting of several references to the pop culture of the 1950s and 1960s.
Authors
- Ivan Cardoso Canepa
Institutions
- Anhembi Morumbi University (BR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov Series IV Philology and Cultural Studies
- Published
- 2025-03-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pcs.2025.67.18.1.7
- Primary Topic
- Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00