The great art of disappearing: Rubem Fonseca and the Ipês documentaries

Authors

  • Ricardo Lísias

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V19n35-2017-2-04

Abstract

In the years leading up to the 1964 military coup, the Institute for Research and Social Studies (Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais - Ipês) conducted a number of propaganda activities aimed at destabilizing João Goulart’s administration and thereby paving the way for a rupture of democracy. Among these activities was funding, and supervising the creation and distribution of a series of documentaries that, screened throughout the country, were intended to disseminate liberal ideology and, at the same time, strengtheninggroups that wanted to oust Goulart at any cost. The authorship of these documentaries’scripts is controversial: a number of researchers, supported by documents and testimonies, attribute it to writer Rubem Fonseca, while others reject this hypothesis. A formal comparison between the documentaries and the work Fonseca produced in the same period has not yet been established. This essay outlines, with its limits, a comparison.

keywords: 1964 military coup; Ipês; Rubem Fonseca.

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Author Biography

Ricardo Lísias

Doutor em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Pós-doutorando na Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp). Autor, entre outros livros, de A vista particular. Rio de Janeiro: Alfaguara, 2016.

Published

2017-12-20

How to Cite

Lísias, R. (2017). The great art of disappearing: Rubem Fonseca and the Ipês documentaries. ArtCultura, 19(35). https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V19n35-2017-2-04

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Dossiê História & Literatura