Fictional biopic films and the representation of the Vargas Era in contemporaneity

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497728695

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Biopic films, Memory, Vargas Era

Abstract

Our goal is to identify the aesthetic and narrative recurrences of the period known as Vargas Era, in a group of Brazilian films that we recognize as fictional biopic films. We propose to understand in which social and affectional circumstances the films emerge, in order to give new meanings to the traumatic experience of the Vargas’s dictatorship. The discussion is carried out especially by means of Rancière (2012; 2013) and Kracauer (2001), because these authors allow us to have a critical reading of the social aspects through the affections and materiality of the filmic images. In contemporary times, there are dissonances about how Brazilian cinema had been dealing with the theme of the Vargas Era. Thereby, we have noticed affectional updates implicated to the trabalhismo in the Brazilian political scenario, in films that privilege intimate aspects of the characters by means of the fictional and the everyday life.

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Author Biographies

Márcio Zanetti Negrini, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS

Realiza doutorado com bolsa da Capes no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação Social da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS. Área de concentração: Práticas e Culturas da Comunicação. Pesquisa junto ao Kinepoliticom (CNPq) –  Grupo de Pesquisa em Cinema, Audiovisual, Estética, Comunicação e Política.

Cristiane Freitas Gutfreind, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS

Doutora em Sociologia pela Université de Paris 5 (René Descartes, Sorbonne). Atualmente é coordenadora do PPGCOM e professora na graduação em Cinema da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS. Bolsista de produtividade do CNPq e líder do Kinepoliticom (CNPq) –  Grupo de Pesquisa em Cinema, Audiovisual, Estética, Comunicação e Política. Foi vice-presidente da Compós (2015-2017) e é membro da AFECCAV (Association Française des Enseignants et des Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel).

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Published

2019-06-02

How to Cite

Negrini, M. Z., & Gutfreind, C. F. (2019). Fictional biopic films and the representation of the Vargas Era in contemporaneity. Animus. Revista Interamericana De Comunicação Midiática, 18(36). https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497728695

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Vol. 18 No. 36 (2019)

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