José Carlos Avellar (15 December 1936 – 18 March 2016) was a Brazilian film critic and essayist.Crítico de cinema José Carlos Avellar morre aos 79 anos

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 ''Jornal do Brasil'', widely known as ''JB'', is a daily newspaper published by Editora JB in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The paper was founded in 1891 and is the third oldest extant Brazilian paper, after the ''Diário de Pernambuco'' and ''O Esta ...

''. Avellar was also a film critic for '' Escrever Cinema'' and taught film at the

University of Guadalajara The University of Guadalajara ( es, Universidad de Guadalajara) is a public higher education institution in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. The university has several high schools as well as graduate and undergraduate campuses, which are distr ...

in Mexico. Avellar published six books on

film theory Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for und ...

, and co-authored dozens of studies on the

Brazilian cinema Brazilian cinema was introduced early in the 20th century but took some time to consolidate itself as a popular form of entertainment. The film industry of Brazil has gone through periods of ups and downs, a reflection of its dependency on state ...

and Latin America - including '' Le Cinéma brésilien'' (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and '' Hojas de Cine'' (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico).

References

External links

"Escrever Cinema"
official site for Avellar's film essays Brazilian film critics Brazilian essayists 1936 births 2016 deaths Brazilian expatriates in Mexico {{film-critic-stub