José Carlos Avellar
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José Carlos Avellar (born December 15, 1936) is a Brazilian film critic and essayist.
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1936, Avellar has worked for over twenty years as a film critic for the Jornal do Brasil. Today, Avellar is a film critic for Escrever Cinema and he also teaches film at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. Avellar has published six books on film theory, and is co-author of dozens of studies on the Brazilian cinema and Latin America - including Le Cinéma brésilien (Center Pompidou, Paris) and Hojas de Cine (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana , Mexico).
[edit] External links
- "Escrever Cinema" official site for José Carlos Avellar's film essays
