Biofilmmaking: life histories and the audiovisual record

• Grant number: 11/23011-2
• Support type: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2012
• Effective date (End): March 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Theory and Philosophy of History
• Principal researcher: Cecilia Helena Lorenzini de Salles Oliveira
• Grantee: Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim Maciel
• Supervisor abroad: Sabina Loriga
• Home Institution: Museu Paulista (MP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France

Abstract

The confluence of history and audiovisual media, more specifically the documentary of a biographical nature, based on interviews, has given rise to a genre that can be called "biofilmmaking" - in a direct analogy to the etymology of the word biography: "a writing of life" - and which bears problematics and reflections shared in common with biography and historiography. (AU)