Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: AILTON DA COSTA SILVA JÚNIOR

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STUDENT : AILTON DA COSTA SILVA JÚNIOR
DATE: 08/04/2022
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: virtual
TITLE:

Cinema Novo, memory and brazilian identity: the symbolic process between the urbanized favela and the rural caatinga represented in the films Rio, 40 graus (1955) and Vidas Secas (1963)

KEY WORDS:

Cinema Novo. Memory. Brasilian identity. Rio, 40 Graus. Vidas Secas.

PAGES: 207
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

The present research intends to investigate the relationship between cinemanovista cinematographic production and Brazilian identity through the analysis of the social types and spaces highlighted in two films belonging to the movement: Rio, 40 Graus (1955) and Vidas Secas (1963), both of which are achievements by São Paulo filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos. The work seeks to understand the cultural dichotomy that opposes the two regions: Southeast and Northeast, urbanized and rural, in the search for a definition of the national culture of a time, through cinematographic analysis (semiotics) and history and memory. It also questions how the films translate, in part, these spaces allowing the recognition of a cultural identity. The period that we will focus on during the research concerns two historical moments of Cinema Novo, which are exactly the years of 1955, when we have the release of the feature film Rio, 40 Graus, and 1963, which was the date of launch of Vidas Secas. The theoretical matrices selected for this work are located in the fields of analysis of the New History, and, above all, in the methods that propose a study of the film as a historical document of its time (FERRO, 1971), still seeking to emphasize, through the social memory , the direct relationship that Cinema Novo carries with national identity (Jacques Le Goff, 1990; Joël Candau, 2011), thus developing a broad reflection on Brazilian cinema and the cinematographic aesthetic development of the 1950s/1960s (Alex Viany , 1959; Paulo Emílio Gomes, 1986; Jean-Claude Bernardet, 1977; Ismail Xavier, 1993). Regarding the concept of identity and cultural history, we base ourselves on the theories of David Harvey (1979) and Stuart Hall (1992) and Sandra Jatahy Pesavento (2003). The scenarios explored in the research are the Rio de Janeiro favela, which appears in the midst of the metropolis in Rio de Janeiro, and the northeastern caatinga, located in the interior of Alagoas, contrasting physical spaces that served as a stage for the development of the two productions with their social and cultural particularities. . We start from the theoretical support existing in the studies on cinema and art in Marc Ferro (1976), categorizing the film as an expressive document in terms of historiographical research; Christian Metz (1977) and Marcel Martin (2005), which allow us to access theoretical filmic conceptualization; the interpretation of urban and rural space in the light of Raymond Williams (1989), Raquel Ronilk (1995), Milton Santos (1997), Henri Lefebvre (2006), Anne Cauquelin (2007); and audiovisual narrative from the perspective of Mikhail Bakhtin (1998) and Michel Foucault (2015). The physical memory of such spaces is directly associated with living memory, which are the different social types arranged in the universe of each feature film, allowing a reflection on the cultural and social institution of the northeast and southeast regions. Therefore, we consider the film narrative as an important source in the process of recognition and understanding of space and its multiple historical and cultural variants. Through our work, it will be possible to determine the process of maturation of Brazilian audiovisual production since its beginnings, and how the cinemanovista aesthetic evolution took place, which redesigned limits and expressive signs, which were confused with the Brazilian culture of the late 1950s. and the beginning of the 1960s, demonstrating the Brazilian and his Brazilianness in different contexts.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2204053 - NATANAEL DUARTE DE AZEVEDO
Interna - 1554095 - MARIANA ZERBONE ALVES DE ALBUQUERQUE
Interna - 615.927.223-34 - EMANUELA SOUSA RIBEIRO - UFPE
Externo à Instituição - ALEXANDRE FIGUEIRÔA FERREIRA - UNICAP
Externo à Instituição - LUIZ ANTONIO MOUSINHO MAGALHÃES - UFPB