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| Author(s): |
Guilherme Seto Monteiro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2013-03-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Carlos Jackson;
Fernando Antonio Pinheiro Filho;
Marcelo Siqueira Ridenti
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| Advisor: | Luiz Carlos Jackson |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation consists in a sociological investigation of Amácio Mazzaropis (1912-1981) cinema. To carry it out, some steps were stablished. First, I managed to reconstitute Mazzaropis social trajectory and artistic formation, character of undeprivileged social origins, migrant, with experiences in popular theatre, radio, television and cinema. In a decisive moment of the implantation of the cultural industry in Brazil, between the 1940s and the 1980s, with the importation of technologies, professionals and languages of foreign centres, he presented the credencials needed to stand out during the structuration of the national cultural industry. Secondly, through an exercise of reconstitution of the conditions of the brazilian cinematographic field between 1950 and 1980, I sought to analyse the fundaments of the formation of the critical reception of Mazzaropis filmography. His popular-massive cinema, consisting of a hybridisition between elements of the regional popular culture and of the mass culture, wouldnt be accepted between the established critical groupings of his time (independentes, esteticistas, cinemanovistas, marginais, among others), interested in distinct political and aesthetical projects for the country, that experienced the intense years of the national-developmentism. Next, I suggest an analysis of different moments of Mazzaropis filmography, interested in identifying the aesthetical choices (form, narrative, content) that would be the basis of a particular style of making movies. Besides the stigma of redundancy attached to the filmmakers movies, I believe it is possible to find meaningful variations throughout the years in his work, possibly related to the historical changes experienced by him and the audiences fractions that were loyal to him at that time. Finally, I tried to offer a contribution to the understanding of the filmmakers major public success throughout all his years of activity. Filling anually the movie theaters, he made the critics repeat at the same pace the interrogations regarding the motivations of his spectators. Through testimonies gathered from aged people that have watched his movies in those years, I sketched some possible interpretations bearing in mind the comprehension of the particular relationship that the filmmaker has established with his loyal audience. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/13012-1 - Mazzaropi: the states of the brazilian cinematographic field in the decades of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s |
| Grantee: | Guilherme Seto Monteiro |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |