Visões de Nordeste e de Desenvolvimento no Cinema Novo e Cinema da Retomada

Abstract

This dissertation aims at presenting views of Brazilian Northeast and development thrown an analysis of movies about Northeast and the dialogue with historical context in which they are inserted. The analyzed movies were: Barren Lifes (1963), God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun (1964), A Dog‟s will (2000) and Too Much Brazil (2000). Initially, we considered Northeast as an unit. Nevertheless, the Northeast has an unique plurality, as seen in works of Freyre (1946) and Canclini (2008). The movies analyzed from a film analysis methodology expressed by Morettin (2007) portrait: this multiplicity; the theoretical discussions in their Brazilian historical context from the beginning of twentieth century; the effervescent discussions about nationalism; and regionalism that Oliven (2000), Freyre (1976) and Albuquerque Jr. (2006 and 2007) present and that will influent the written compositions in which the movies were inspired by. The movies analysis was made from the following categories: people-government relation, cangaço, coronelismo, landscape and religiosity. After the analysis we found multiple views of Brazilian Northeast which survive and reinvent themselves in time.