Lost and damned: politics, film production and memory

• Grant number: 15/15369-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2016
• End date: April 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Communications - Visual Communication
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Victorio Morettin
• Grantee: Daniela Giovana Siqueira
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/14008-4 - The relationships between cine and history: politics, film production and memory, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This research project aims at examining four films produced by filmmakers from Minas Gerais - Brazil - between the years 1969 and 1972, addressing for this purpose the relations between filmic analysis and historical research. In the center of discussion there is the concept called "scene of dissent" postulated by Jacques Rancière (2010). Therefore, this proposal considers the following films as basis for analysis: Vida Provisória, by Mauricio Gomes Leite (1969); Crioulo Doido, by Carlos Alberto Prates Correia (1970); Perdidos e Malditos, by Geraldo Veloso (1970) and O Homem do Corpo Fechado, by Schubert Magalhães (1972). Their directors are based on a similar formation: cineclubism shared in the Film Studies Center (FSC) and work together in the field of film criticism in important periodicals, such as the Journal of Cinema and the Journal of Film Criticism of Belo Horizonte. In common, there is also the unprecedented financial resource donated by the Development Bank of Minas Gerais for the financial viability of some of the works. These economic, political and historical factors subsidize the context that made these films emerge, media products capable of representing a film production trajectory that has survived the years and today allows it to be (re) discussed by studies dedicated to the history of Brazilian cinema. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SIQUEIRA, Daniela Giovana. Cineastas mineiros em trânsito (1968-1970): política, cultura e memória. 2019. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) São Paulo.