Ninth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos was very important for the consolidation of cinema and audiovisual in Brazil and is considered one of the great agents in the acclaim of the cinematographic movement Cinema Novo, in the decades of 1950 and 1960. This filmmaker has a very vast work, with strong appeal to popular culture and the Brazilian nation. He made several films adapted directly from works of national literature and others inspired by its literary tradition. In his filmography, it is noticeable that there’s a direct relation between cinema, literature and nation - therefore, the main objective of this research is to understand what are the aspects of a notion of nation that are present in the filmmaker’s filmography and how he writing national elements in his body of work. The theoretical-methodological approach of this research is to study the notion of nation writing by resorting, fundamentally, to the film’s cinematographic technical aspects to locate these elements present in the work. From there, it will be important to understand if these elements could also have contributed by writing aspects of nation in other cultural flows that unfolded and that were influenced by the artistic production of Nelson Pereira dos Santos.