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| Author(s): |
Marta Moraes Nehring
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2007-07-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Jean Claude Georges Rene Bernardet;
Regina Maria Prosperi Meyer;
Maria Dora Genis Mourão;
Cynthia Andersen Sarti;
Ismail Norberto Xavier
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| Advisor: | Jean Claude Georges Rene Bernardet |
| Abstract | |
With filmic analysis as its point of departure, the research attempts to respond to the following questions: how is the city portrayed in the modern Brazilian cinema that emerged during the 1960s? How are these questions framed in a decade of such extreme political and cultural tension in Brazil? The premise is that, in the nations largest industrial hub, a metropolis of tentacular growth, the jargon of progress covers up the precarious urbanization of an unequal society. The films shot in this environment provide notable source material from which to understand how conservative modernity shows its face in cinema. In addition to its treatment of the films, the thesis also seeks to ascertain to what extent the analyzed works continue from or break with the earlier production in both their plastic form and narratives. The results show that, as utopia is a problem in the representation of the city in Brazilian cinema, in the case of São Paulo in particular, the maladjustment of the characters stems from the citys progress as a result of an urban development that combines economic modernity with a power-hungry elite. (AU) | |