Subjectivity as an objective case: John Cassavetes and Faces.

• Grant number: 11/22504-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2012
• End date: November 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Social Psychology
• Principal Investigator: João Carlos Guedes da Fonseca
• Grantee: Caroline Marie Abrahão Salomão Gilbert
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Comunicação e Marketing. Centro Universitário Armando Alvares Penteado (FA-FAAP). Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present project of Research Initiation Scholarship intends, from the study of Faces, by John Cassavetes, to verify how the movie express its esthetic choices. The study of the work consists of the analysis of formal aesthetic problems that seem to respond to issues of social-historical character of the United States at the time.The importance in the analysis of Faces is given by its relevance as a work that enunciates in a symptomatic way the impasse that would characterize the decades of 60 and 70: the collapse of a certain modernization project. This collapse is felt as a parametrization of life which, in its turn, relates to administered life - in the terms of Theodor Adorno. Cassavetes's film production in general and Faces, in particular, express the director's effort to establish a rupture with the industrial system of Hollywood. At the same time, the movie aspire to establish a new form of production where the individual becomes the central element, to whom the technical's aspects are subjected. This project, therefore, aims to assess how Cassavetes dialogues with the universe constituted in the midst of such modernization project collapse.