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| Author(s): |
Alexandre Wahrhaftig
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-10-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Cristian da Silva Borges;
Yanet Aguilera Viruez Franklin de Matos;
Ismail Norberto Xavier
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| Advisor: | Cristian da Silva Borges |
| Abstract | |
The film Certified copy (2010), by Abbas Kiarostami, is a strange object within his filmography. It continues to work on issues presented in the director\'s prior works, but it also represents a rupture, indicating a new path. His works continually explored the entanglements between fiction and reality, whereas Certified copy seems to abolish any perspective on an exterior reality to the film\'s fiction. The dramaturgy and the formal constructions of the film (framings, montage, mise en scène) build a conceptual reflection on the very idea of fiction and artistic representation, exploring key-concepts of the work, such as copies and originals. This dissertation intends to investigate through filmic analyses the procedures that tension the notion of cinematic fiction. The text is divided in three parts, each of them aiming at a particular aspect of the fiction explored by the movie, each compressed into one symbolic notion: stage, mirror and window. The stage represents the strict division between reality and fiction: a place of paradoxes and frictions between the actors and their characters. The mirror investigates the infinite repetitions and duplications within the film structure, and also the spectator\'s process of projection and identification. Finally, the window explores the realistic aspect of the film, its \"transparent\" vocation, questioning the possibility of a true access of the real, the original to every copy. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/11816-1 - Playing in Certified Copy: reality and fiction in the cinema of Abbas Kiarostami |
| Grantee: | Alexandre Wahrhaftig |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |