Advanced search
Start date
Betweenand


Movie theater equipment: uses and symbolizations of cultural spaces in capitals of the Midwest during New State

Full text
Author(s):
Antonio Ricardo Calori de Lion
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: Assis. 2017-02-06.
Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis
Defense date:
Advisor: Eduardo Romero de Oliveira
Abstract

This work aims to analyze and reflect the political and cultural function possessed by the Cine-Teatro Cuiabá and Goiânia, starting from the urban intervention process. In the early 1940’s the state government of Mato Grosso and Goiás built the movies theaters in their capitals, buildings included in the projects of the cities modernization; in Goiânia’s case, the movie theater was part of the institutional works for the new capital construction. Based on the concept of invention of tradition proposed by Eric Hobsbawm, aims to analyze the process occurred in the mentioned states as a key part for Getúlio Vargas’ policy of New State, where culture poses as an intrinsic element for the modernization project of Cuiabá and Goiânia. In this context, the March to the West was an important project in order to compose the ideal of non-Indian settlement as a fundamental part of the constructed idea of progress - mainly by advertising - on the two states. Urban interventions in Cuiabá began in the late 1930’s and continued until 1945 questioning the modern urban and architectural designs for a city of colonial origin. In Goiania, interventions emerged entirely by modern conceptions. The main sources of research were periodicals; plays brought up to stage on the spaces in question and also the very materiality of buildings. The objective of this work is to give a contribution to (re)think the New State period in the Brazilian Midwest, bringing up to debate the very spaces for culture in a propose of reading among the crossroads of history, architecture and theater. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 14/16749-3 - The cultural modernization in the Midwest by the construction of the cine-teatro Cuiabá and cine-teatro Goiânia in the decade of 1940
Grantee:Antonio Ricardo Calori de Lion
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master