The large social gap in Brazil introduces a fissure in representation
that touches its limits, reproducing over and over figures of an
abyss. On one side, the middle class; on the other, the “popular”
or the “people,” understood as a vast majority disinherited. As
cinematographic art is made exclusively by the middle class, a kind of
“mauvaise conscience” appears and is the central motor of an
aesthetic of doubt and guilt. This lecture will address changes in the
representation of the “popular” in Brazilian cinema over the 20th
and 21st centuries, mostly looking at Cinema Novo.Fernão
Pessoa Ramos is a Professor at the Center for Research in
Documentary Film in UNICAMP (Campinas State University).
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