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| Author(s): |
Emi Koide
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2011-06-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Iray Carone;
Ana Maria Loffredo;
Maria Luisa Sandoval Schmidt;
Márcio Orlando Seligmann Silva;
Ismail Norberto Xavier
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| Advisor: | Iray Carone |
| Abstract | |
This thesis is a critical treatment of images and their relationship to memory and incontemporary social history, specifically the influence of the mass media where audiovisual media aredominant in industrial culture. Mainstream audiovisual production creates consensus of memoriesand accepted history by imposing standardization of experience, in contrast this thesis focuses on ananalysis of a different practice within cinematography which, through developing critical reflection,highlights how human perception has changed due to the adoption and influence of new technologies:ideas put forward by Benjamin in his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technical Reproducibility. Miriam Hansens interpretation of mimicry, developed by play and similarity, is astarting point for this thesis. Herein it is proposed that cinema has the ability to free itself from endlessand perverse repetition, establishing between humans and technology a new relationship that is criticaland non-destructive. By investigating the syntax in Chris Marker films, which consider history andimages, this thesis aims at a possible working-through process as to how cinema could enablememory. Benjamins writings about cinema and history are explored by analysing Markers films,photographs and texts; understanding is sought through the manner of his articulation of image andsound. In Markers films, the purpose is to fairly convert the cinema into an antidote againstrepression, by turning his cameras on the illusions and denouncing those same production methodsused to make false images and history. The montage of his images mimics a creative memory, anarrangement of sounds and images that create dialectic connections; his work awakens what had beenforgotten and provokes reflection. (AU) | |