Maranhão 669: connections between Glauber Rocha and Walter Benjamin in Maranhão 66 revisited

Authors

  • Marcus Ramusyo Almeida Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V18n33-2016-2-08

Abstract

This article aims to find possible connections between Glauber Rocha’s cinema, with its own aesthetic and time flow, and Walter Benjamin’s philosophy, especially regarding montage and the use of allegories as a way to present latent dialectical images. Considering the production of a critical-poetic thinking, an analogy based on the immersion in the scientific and philosophical thinking of audiovisual production is proposed between the concept of history in Walter Benjamin, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, Cinema Novo filmmaker’s “will of history” through the Eztetyka da fome (1965) and Eztetyka do sonho (1971) and his 1960s movies.

keywords: cinema; dialectical image; Brazilian politics.

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Author Biography

Marcus Ramusyo Almeida Brasil

Doutor em Ciências Sociais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP). Professor do Mestrado em Artes da Universidade Federal do Maranhão/Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UFMA/Udesc) e do curso de licenciatura em Artes Visuais do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Maranhão (IFMA). Co-organizador, entre outros, do livro Visualidades: comunicação, arte e cultura nos anos 10. São Luís: Edufma, 2014.

Published

2017-03-27

How to Cite

Brasil, M. R. A. (2017). Maranhão 669: connections between Glauber Rocha and Walter Benjamin in Maranhão 66 revisited. ArtCultura, 18(33). https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V18n33-2016-2-08

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Section

Dossiê: História & Cinema no Brasil pós-1964