[pt] Vida de otário: A saída dos operários da fábrica de Lumière se constitui numa análise sobre as representações do trabalho no cinema brasileiro contemporâneo, à luz das mudanças ocorridas na esfera da cultura e da economia mundial ao longo da década de 90. As obras exibidas no início do século XXI são colocadas em diálogo com filmes nacionais dos anos 60, 70 e 80 a fim de verificar como o declínio das utopias, que inspiraram o projeto moderno, afetou o lugar ocupado pela figura do operário na fábrica de Lumière. / [en] Vida de otário: A saída dos operários da fábrica de Lumière consists of the analysis of representations of labor within contemporary Brazilian cinema, considering the changes in the sphere of global culture and economy during the 1990s. Movies released in the beginning of the present century are contrasted with national films from the 1960s, 70s and 80s in order to verify how the fading of the idea of utopia which inspired the modern project has affected the place occupied by the figure of the laborer in Lumière`s factory.

This thesis analyzes media coverage of the labor movements by taking main underlying dynamics into the attention, in which the neo-liberal policy implementations ideologically contradict with the will of the workers. The media representation of working class will be evaluated on the base of the most striking contradictory area, privatization. The study will generally discuss the main dynamics before going through the news analyses of four national and nine local newspapers. This news of national and local media will be evaluated by the methods of content and discourse analyses. The study will finally try to find out the attitude of the workers towards their media representation and their trust in the media through the method of interviewing. The national and local media will be compared during the evaluations presented within this thesis.