“CINEMA IS STILL THE BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT”: THE NEW USES OF THE OLD STREET CINEMAS IN RECIFE
Movie theater. Recife. Street Cinemas. Culture. projection houses
This work intends to analyze an element that is part of the history of the city of Recife and the trajectory of Pernambuco cinema: the street cinemas. Within the clipping, we will study how cinema arrives in Recife and the emergence of the first projection houses; how cinemas were losing the space they had conquered, which led to the massive closure of dozens of theaters. Thus, there are some questions to be answered: were the new forms of movie consumption the main reasons for the disappearance of street cinemas? How were these spaces treated after closure? What is left in the city of the old street cinemas? What has Recife been doing to not let such memories be forgotten? For the theoretical-methodological contribution, we used studies on cities by Sandra Pesavento (2007), Maurício Abreu (1998), Maria Stella Bresciani (1992), Ani Fani Alessandri Carlos (2007), Italo Calvino (1990), in addition to the relationship between memory and history of Maurice Halbwachs (1990), Le Goff (2006), José D'Assunção Barros (2005). The research was built from the reports of memorialists, document analysis of periodicals, film analysis and fieldwork carried out in March 2022. Thus, this work sought to investigate a part of the history of the city of Recife that still lives in spaces abandoned due to a restlessness caused by what was left of some cinemas.