%0 Journal Article %T Ciao merlett¨¤: a volta italianada da mui¨¦ rendera %A Amancio %A Ant£¿nio Carlos %J Estudos Hist¨®ricos (Rio de Janeiro) %D 2011 %I Centro de Pesquisa e Documenta??o de Hist¨®ria Contempor?nea do Brasil da Funda??o Get¨²lio Vargas %R 10.1590/S0103-21862011000100005 %X the cangaceiro (bandit) is an outstanding character in the brazilian cinema, connected to a given mythology of the sert£¿o and to a regional perspective. associated to the canga£¿o movies, reassigning the western genre, it deserved few representations in foreign cinematographies. we deal with one italian production, o cangaceiro, made in 1970 by giovanni fago, which we intend to analyze through some interfaces with elements of the brazilian culture. we consider the double appropriation of the genre (western, canga£¿o's films, western spaghetti), and the thematic updates, thinking the transgressions to the canonical models, from a singular absorption of historically defined contents. %K bandit's movie %K cinematographic rereading %K foreign representations. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-21862011000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en