Allegories Of UnderdevelopmentExamines the centrality of Cinema Novo to filmmaking in Brazil. A camera in the hand and ideas in the head was the primary axiom of the young originators of Brazils Cinema Novo. This movement of the 1960s and early 1970s overcame technical constraints and produced films on minimal budgets. In Allegories of Underdevelopment, Ismail Xavier examines a number of these films, arguing that they served to represent a nation undergoing a political and social