1. Journey (through Hollywood) to Brazilian cinema: Alex Viany and the issue of realism in the post-World War II period (1945-1949)
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Santos, Jo?o Pedro Silva dos, Perruso, Marco Antonio, Szwako, Jos? Eduardo Leon, and Carvalho, Eliska Altmann de
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segundo p?s-guerra ,Sociologia ,cinema brasileiro ,neorealism ,neorrealismo ,post-World War II period ,Alex Viany ,Brazilian cinema ,Brazilian Communist Party ,Partido Comunista Brasileiro - Abstract
Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2022-12-08T19:16:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2022 - Jo?o Pedro Silva dos Santos.pdf: 2035420 bytes, checksum: 03de458cbcdbf9ca44dbb12b16b09765 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2022-12-08T19:16:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2022 - Jo?o Pedro Silva dos Santos.pdf: 2035420 bytes, checksum: 03de458cbcdbf9ca44dbb12b16b09765 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2022-03-30 CAPES - Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior The present dissertation is fundamentally concerned with the renewal of Brazilian cinematographic thought in the second post-war period. For this purpose, we follow the trajectory of the film critic Alex Viany since the beginning of his career, in the newspaper Di?rio da Noite (1935-36) and in the magazine Carioca (1937-45), going through the years in which he worked as a correspondent in Hollywood for the magazine O Cruzeiro (1945-48), until his return to Brazil, when he started to collaborate in the magazine A Cena Muda (1949-51) and edit, in partnership with Vin?cius de Moraes, the magazine Filme (1949). This is a phase that has been little studied in his critical production, which allowed us to evaluate their reactions and impressions in the face of concrete alternatives presented in the political and cinematographic scenario of the second half of the 1940s. Following the inverse path of Arthur Autran?s research, which analyzes the critical production of Alex Viany between the return of the United States, at the end of 1948, and the publication of the book Introdu??o ao Cinema Brasileiro, in 1959, we seek to discuss how the notions of determination (from the political party line) and mediation (from the ?field? of film criticism), as well as the ideological analyzes that informed this study, produced a reduction in the cinematographic thought of Alex Viany to the ?ideological framework? of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). In this sense, the study of Alex Viany?s previous intellectual trajectory aims to rescue the political dimension of his agency and reassess the formation of a realistic discourse in his cinematographic thought A presente disserta??o tem como foco a renova??o do pensamento cinematogr?fico brasileiro no segundo p?s-guerra. Para este fim, acompanhamos a trajet?ria do cr?tico de cinema Alex Viany desde o in?cio de sua carreira no jornal Di?rio da Noite (1935-36) e na revista Carioca (1937-45), atravessando os anos em que atuou como correspondente em Hollywood para a revista O Cruzeiro (1945-48), at? o retorno ao Brasil, quando passou a colaborar na revista A Cena Muda (1949-51) e a editar, em parceria com Vin?cius de Moraes, a revista Filme (1949). Trata-se de uma fase pouco estudada em sua produ??o cr?tica, a qual permitiu-nos avaliar suas rea??es e impress?es diante das alternativas concretas apresentadas no cen?rio pol?tico e cinematogr?fico da segunda metade dos anos 1940. Seguindo o caminho inverso da pesquisa de Arthur Autran, quem estudou a produ??o cr?tica de Alex Viany entre o retorno dos Estados Unidos, no final de 1948, e a publica??o do livro Introdu??o ao Cinema Brasileiro, em 1959, buscamos tamb?m discutir o modo como as no??es de determina??o (da linha pol?tica partid?ria) e media??o (do ?campo? da cr?tica cinematogr?fica), assim como as an?lises ideol?gicas que informaram este estudo, produziram uma redu??o do pensamento cinematogr?fico de Alex Viany ao ?arcabou?o ideol?gico? do Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB). Neste sentido, o estudo da trajet?ria intelectual pregressa de Alex Viany visa resgatar a dimens?o pol?tica de sua ag?ncia e reavaliar a forma??o de um discurso realista em seu pensamento cinematogr?fico.
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