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. Avellar was also a film critic for Escrever Cinema and taught film at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. Avellar published six books on film theory, and co-authored dozens of studies on the Brazilian cinema 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