Culture and Politics in Assis Film Society: a Project of Formation and Interiorization of Cinematographic Culture (1960 – 1983)

Author(s)

Priscila Constantino Sales

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Assis. 2016-10-04.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis
• Defense date: 2016-08-03
• Advisor: Hélio Rebello Cardoso Junior

Abstract

In this dissertation we seek to approach the practices carried out by Assis Film Society from 1960 to 1983. More precisely, its political-cultural projects and their relationship with the film society movement, as much as with the cinematographic field. To do so, we tried to analyze the historical and aesthetic configurations which enabled the development of a cinematographic point of view and the formation of sociability spaces oriented towards the cinema that, being part of the field of culture and art, were not free from disputes of interest. The film societies appear in the beginning of the 20th century, arising from the process of cultural legitimation of the cinema, having as its specificity the public organization around the cinematographic image. What was in the beginning a limited movement, it will, from 1950, multiply and organized itself in institutions representative of its interests, having as their chief activities the propagation of, the research about and the debate over the cinema and its political and social consequences. It is in this network of knowledges and practices that we locate the Assis Film Society. Originated in the University and considering the cinema a cultural manifestation, the Film Sociey inaugurated a new way of reception in Assis town: a project of formation and democratization of cinematographic culture which, from the 1970s, had the accretion of political engagement. Thus we set out to understand the trajectory of Assis Film Society in Assis College of Science and Letters, as well as its meaning to the town, considering the production of debates, the formation of a dissenting public, the compromise with the cinema as art and with social themes, and the defense of the Brazilian cinema,to sum up, the role of the Film Society to interiorize the cultural cinema. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/27093-9 - Culture and politic in Unesp/Assis: a look on cineclubs pratices (1960-1980)
• Grantee: Priscila Constantino Sales
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master