Aimless roam : the worker as a permanent intruder in brazilian cinema

Abstract: The aim of this brief overview is to investigate representations of the worker and the working class in Brazilian cinema. Three feature-length fiction films in particular will emerge as key texts in this analysis: Luís Sérgio Person's São Paulo S.A. (1965), Leon Hirszman's They D...

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Autor: Suppia, Alfredo Luiz Paes de Oliveira, 1975-
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Repositório da Produção Científica e Intelectual da Unicamp
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:https://www.repositorio.unicamp.br/:1310820
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12733/9967
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Trabalho no cinema
Cinema brasileiro
Motion pictures, Brazilian
Work in the cinema
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Sumario:Abstract: The aim of this brief overview is to investigate representations of the worker and the working class in Brazilian cinema. Three feature-length fiction films in particular will emerge as key texts in this analysis: Luís Sérgio Person's São Paulo S.A. (1965), Leon Hirszman's They Don't Wear Black-Tie (Eles Não Usam Black-Tie, 1981), and Beto Brant's The Trespasser (O Invasor, 2001). These films provide useful paradigms for our analysis of possible ruptures and continuities in terms of a film production with a focus on work. Contemporary cinema will also be examined in order to discuss the role of the worker as a constant "intruder." As a whole, this study seeks to demonstrate that the worker, the working class, and labor issues have emerged as recurring motifs that lurk beneath a number of film narratives, even though in an oblique or collateral way