The Present as History: Aesthetics of Elaboration in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

Following Andreas Huyssen’s path (2014), who pinpoints a pivotal concern with memory in contemporary culture, a response to Western societies’ decreasing confidence in the future, the article seeks to examine how contemporary Brazilian cinema has been elaborating historical experience. To do so, we...

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Autor: Mesquita, Claudia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Associação Nacional dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação
Repositorio:E-Compós
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.e-compos.org.br:article/2463
Acceso en línea:https://www.e-compos.org.br/e-compos/article/view/2463
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cinema brasileiro contemporâneo
Memória
Elaboração histórica
Cine brasileño contemporáneo
Memoria
Elaboración histórica
Contemporary brazilian cinema
Memory
Historical elaboration
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Sumario:Following Andreas Huyssen’s path (2014), who pinpoints a pivotal concern with memory in contemporary culture, a response to Western societies’ decreasing confidence in the future, the article seeks to examine how contemporary Brazilian cinema has been elaborating historical experience. To do so, we have created a small inventory, experimenting with the grouping of films in series, in order to indicate and characterize recurring “figures of historical elaboration” in such filmography. The emphasis on the “present as history” stands out in our mapping: under the shade of a “past that does not pass” or designed as “the reverse of the future” the present becomes the center of these films.