Brasília, cinema and censorship: the different representations of the new capital (1967-1981)
Brasilia; Cinema; Censorship; Military dictatorship; Representation Systems.
This dissertation aims to understand how the political culture of the military dictatorship era (1964-1985), with censorship, conservative modernization of the authoritarian regime, and the national-developmentist ideal impregnated in the filmmakers' perspective at the time of the first years in Brasília, influenced the production of films and the vision of these artists about the new capital. There is a theoretical debate among the main authors that will provide the basis and support for the arguments used in the dissertation, such as Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault, and Stuart Hall. Based on this, it will be possible to understand the concept of systems of representation and how they are present in the narratives of the films about Brasília of that time ("Samba em Brasília," "Vestibular 70," and "Brasília Ano 10") and in the documents produced by the censors. Understanding how the dynamics between censors and censored artists and their artistic productions worked will be the guiding thread of the work since it will discuss the possible representations of what an ideal production about the new capital would be and what was considered a risky, "subversive" production, and how this is directly connected to a majority discourse about Brasília. The construction of these discourses about the capital will also be analyzed as a way of understanding why they arise and are important both for the Brazilian state and for the artistic producers of that time.