Das representações da cidade no cinema brasileiro.

Abstract

Since his dawn in the late nineteenth century, cinema has been intrinsically related on several levels to the city. On a thematic level, it represented different spaces, lifestyles and human conditions since the Lumiére brothers' 1850 Paris, demonstrating the ability to capture and express the spatial complexity, the diversity and social dynamism of the city, which, for turn, provided an important imagery source for both the first productions and the sequent ones, contributing to the the cities' image and readability. By monitoring the film representations of the city within the specific context of Brazil, one seeks to reflect on the films that bring a closer look at the urban space, and to understand the way they used geography, specific spatial constructs and symbolism for weaving sociological, political, ideological and cultural observations on the specific context in which they were produced during the twentieth and early twenty-first century.