The local power: northeastern countrysides in the brazilian cinema

Author(s)

Diogo Cavalcanti Velasco

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes
• Defense date: 2010-08-27

Examining board members

Nuno César Pereira de Abreu; Wencesláo Machado de Oliveira Junior; Maria Luiza Martins de Mendonça

• Advisor: Nuno César Pereira de Abreu

Abstract

The Sertão Nordestino has always been in Brazilian people imagination through the history discourses that has been produced. Several fields of discourses, like politics, economy, social sciences and arts, created a symbolic universe about this space. Therefore, the Movies also contributed in this symbolization, mainly in the Nordestern and Cinema Novo cycles. Nowadays, in the 2000s, there are new currents of cinematographic representation. One of them is the group of Nordeste that wants to talk about their Sertões and gives them new meanings according to a contemporary globalized world. This present dissertations searches, through the analytical methodology of Pierre Sorlin, to show how this happens in a group of four films: Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus (Marcelo Gomes, 2005), Árido Movie (Lírio Ferreira, 2006), Céu de Suely (Karim Ainouz, 2006) e Deserto Feliz (Paulo Caldas, 2007) (AU)