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| Author(s): |
Anderson Ricardo Trevisan
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Total Authors: 1
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| Affiliation: | [1] Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Sociologia & Antropologia; v. 12, n. 3 2022-11-28. |
| Abstract | |
Abstract This article proposes a sociological analysis of the film Drifters (1929), by John Grierson (1898-1972), a work that became the cornerstone of the British Documentary Film Movement. In the film, ordinary people appear in work activities - in this case, herring fishermen in the North Sea. The visual analysis, guided by the methodology of Pierre Francastel and Pierre Sorlin, in counterpoint with Grierson’s texts, allowed to raise some questions about the notions of education and democracy that seem to guide the director. This allowed the conclusion that Drifters is an ode to progress, an advertisement of the nation, of its unity and the feeling of collectivity. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/23656-5 - Images of democracy: educational cinema and the masses in the first half of the twentieth century in Brazil and Europe |
| Grantee: | Anderson Ricardo Trevisan |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |