Abstract
This paper ponders on the reception of narratives. Thus, three objectives are established: (i) examine the literary aspect of Jogo de Cena (2007) – a Brazilian film directed by Eduardo Coutinho –, in its essayistic form; (ii) investigate how fiction and non-fiction are built in Coutinho’s film; (iii) ascertain how the transparency/opacity of that work relates to the historicity of the relationship between producing and receiving narratives. Attaining those goals is a manner of approaching an issue related to the apparent waning of the distinction between fiction and non-fiction caused by media, and to the impoverishment of fiction in literature. This discussion aims to reflect on reading, considering contributions to Cinema, Theater and Literature Studies. This paper involves reviewing publications on that film, a description of it – considering three aspects: image, performance, and sound –, and some theoretical references from the fields mentioned above. Starting with a close reading of that descriptive study and the selection of excerpts from the film, a discussion confronts the analysis of the material with some bibliographical sources. The results are summarized as: (i) it is not possible to categorize narratives just in terms of being a commodity or an artistic work; (ii) reading narratives should consider the simultaneity of fiction and non-fiction; (iii) there is no transparency in reading since it is in an intermediate zone where historicity is present among the work, the author, the reader, and the world. Therefore, the notion of reading is rethought to face current configurations of narratives.
Presenters
Vitor SosterStudent, PhD, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Reading, Literature, Cinema, Fiction, Non-Fiction
