Overview
Do we still know the grotesque when we see it? Muniz Sodré and Raquel Paiva, two of Latin America's greatest thinkers in the field of Communication and authors of the seminal book 'O Império do Grotesco', revisit their work after two decades in an opera-doc that invites reflection on the grotesque today.
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