Historical research and cinema: the creation of Villa-Lobos

Authors

  • Vitória Azevedo da Fonseca

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V18n33-2016-2-07

Abstract

This article aims at discussing the tension between meaning construction in historical films taking into account its different phases, which include research and script writing previously to its final formatting. This discussion shall demonstrate that a dialogue is established with a number of memories. In this sense, I propose that historical movies are documented fictions, as they are fictional creations based on historical documentation. In the case of Villa-Lobos, uma vida de paixão (Villa- Lobos, a life of passion, by Zelito Vianna), the choice of a dreamlike and mythological perspective was not dictated only by the filmmaker and scrip writer’s imagination, but stems from a confrontation with tensions in the memories constructed about the title character.

keywords: cinema; historical research; Villa-Lobos.

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Author Biography

Vitória Azevedo da Fonseca

Doutora em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Pós-doutoranda em Educação na Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar). Professora da Secretaria Estadual de Educação do Estado de São Paulo. Coautora do livro A reflexão e a prática no ensino: História. São Paulo: Blucher, 2012.

Published

2017-03-27

How to Cite

da Fonseca, V. A. (2017). Historical research and cinema: the creation of Villa-Lobos. ArtCultura, 18(33). https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V18n33-2016-2-07

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Dossiê: História & Cinema no Brasil pós-1964