Projecting the subjectivity: the social construction of love by the cinema

Author(s)

Túlio Cunha Rossi

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2013-03-22

Examining board members

Paulo Roberto Arruda de Menezes; Heloisa Buarque de Almeida; Rogério Ferraraz; Mauro Luiz Rovai; Angelo dos Santos Soares

• Advisor: Paulo Roberto Arruda de Menezes

Abstract

This research investigates the discourses and models of romantic love constructed in Hollywood movies, more specifically in the 90s and 2000s. One argue the role of cinema in constituting references about the idealization and experience of love relationships and how this cinema contributes on reproducing beliefs and moral values about love that are pertinent to modernity and its social, cultural and historical specificities. Thus, in the analysed period, it could be observed constant quotations of films from other times, suggesting, especially in a context of great presence of audiovisual medias in everyday life, that cinema uses itself as reference when it comes about love and reproduces it as a commonplace, culturally established. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/05927-0 - Projecting the subjetivity: the social construction of love by the cinema
• Grantee: Túlio Cunha Rossi
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate