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Militant cinema, videoactivism and vídeo popular: the struggle in the field of visible and the dialectical images of history

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Author(s):
Gabriel de Barcelos Sotomaior
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
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Examining board members:
Marcius Freire; Renato Levi Pahim; Marilia da Silva Franco; Luiz Fernando Santoro; Luiz Antônio Vadico
Advisor: Marcius Freire
Abstract

The present work has as its theme the audiovisual produced in the context of social struggles, especially the documentaries made by collective actors (social movements, communities, collectives, unions and others) or directors linked to these processes. Will be addressed within that, the militant cinema, the video activism and the popular video, and other cinematographic movements linked to political mobilizations. The first half of this thesis is dedicated to the path of militant cinema, in the period of the first cinemas (understand them within the becomings of modernity), until the effervescence of the 1960s and 1970s. The second half deals with the militant/ activist audiovisual within political, cultural and economic changes of the contemporary and also the transformations in social movements and in audiovisual technologies, between the years 1980 to the present day, especially with the use of video and internet. For this, we will understand the world militant film in their different meanings, beyond, also, the global resistance video activism of 1990s and 2000s and the Brazilian "vi?deo popular" on its two moments: 1980s and 2000s. The objective of this course is a theoretical reflection on the struggles in the field of the visible, using Walter Benjamin's reflections on the relationship between image and history, especially the concept of "dialectical image." Seeking thereby to understand the possibility of a historical image no longer closed in his general narrative, but "deviant", with "break up", told "from the point of view of who did not win", which can be resignified, remounted and understood in its contradiction and dialectics. Along with this reflection, watch the movie within the organizational, educative and mobilization of collective subjects instances (AU)