Film dreaming: unfilmed scripts in Brazilian cinema

os roteiros não filmados na historiografia do cinema brasileiro

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https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.2102

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Brazilian Cinema.Film History. Unfilmed Scripts

Abstract

The essay proposes a historiographical review of Brazilian cinema based on unfilmed scripts. Following an analysis of unfilmed scripts written by Mário Peixoto, Vítor Lima Barreto and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade the author suggests to understand styles, projects and aesthetic intentions that, though announced, were incomplete historical aspects in the cinematic cycles took part by these directors. Whether in the cinema of the twenties, in the Vera Cruz project or in the relationship between Cinema Novo and Embrafilme, this set of scripts reveals powerful aesthetic imagery which announce a continuity and a more coherent closure of the cinematic periods that they had dialogued and promoted.

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Author Biography

Pablo Gonçalo, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brasil

Pablo Gonçalo is an assistant professor at the University of Brasília. In 2019, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Chicago and did post-doctoral research in partnership with the University of São Paulo. His research centers on the history of unfilmed scripts, focusing on German and Brazilian film history. More recently he has been researching the classic Hollywood era, consulting archives and many original unfilmed scripts of the 40s, written by Ben Hecht, Francis Marion, Dudley Nichols and Billy Wilder. The author of O cinema como refúgio da escrita: roteiros e paisagens em Peter Handke e Wim Wenders, he has been published in Journal of Screenwriting, La Furia Umana several edited collections, Brazilian newspapers and magazines, such as Folha de São Paulo and Revista 451. Gonçalo writes film reviews and scripts, and is also a curator. 

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Published

10-09-2020

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Gonçalo, P. (2020). Film dreaming: unfilmed scripts in Brazilian cinema: os roteiros não filmados na historiografia do cinema brasileiro. E-Compós, 23. https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.2102

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Vol. 23 (2020)

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