Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:11:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paola Prestes Penney.pdf: 2036011 bytes, checksum: 1d5bd18e2d7c9989e5ca7f25f460e4ec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study investigates the processes through which poetic narratives are constructed in documentary cinema and their results. In order to do so, the question of the audiovisual poetry that is formed through images, sounds, and words will be analyzed. In its turn, this analysis will serve as the basis of the proposition of this study, the creation of poetic languages, and the mapping of new discernible frontiers of communication and perception in the context of the production of documentary cinema. Three documentaries by the German filmmaker Werner Herzog are analyzed Fata Morgana (1971), Lessons of darkness (1992), and The wild blue yonder (2005) which, in the context of this dissertation, constitute a poetic trilogy. Based on these works and documental material on the director, this project aims to elucidate Herzog s creative processes and their transformations in each phase of realization of those films, from the choices in conceptual approach to the editing, by comparatively analyzing the way text, image, and sound are worked together. To this end, the study of these three works is founded in two moments: the realization (technical analysis) and the result (analysis of the poetic or artistic language). This methodology satisfies technical criteria as much as it does sensibility criteria, and when combined with Gaston Bachelard s, Arlindo Machado s, and Gilles Deleuze s concepts of image, this study reveals the processes of audiovisual language creation in documentary cinema that transcend the limits of the genre / Este estudo investiga os processos de construção de narrativas poéticas em cinema documentário e seus resultados. Para tanto, será analisada a questão da poesia audiovisual que é construída por meio de imagens, sons e palavras. Esta análise servirá como base para se estabelecer a questão proposta neste estudo, a criação de linguagens poéticas e o mapeamento de novas fronteiras de comunicação e percepção sensíveis no contexto da produção de cinema documentário. Três documentários do cineasta alemão Werner Herzog são estudados: Fata Morgana, de 1971, Lições da escuridão, de 1992 e Além do azul selvagem, de 2005, que, no contexto desta dissertação, compõem uma trilogia poética do diretor. Com base nessas obras e material documental sobre o diretor, a pesquisa procura trazer um entendimento dos processos criativos de Herzog e as transformações desses processos, em cada etapa de realização dos filmes, da escolha de dispositivos à montagem, analisando comparativamente de que maneira são articulados texto, imagem e som. Para tanto, o estudo destas três obras está estruturado em dois momentos: a realização (análise técnica), e o resultado (análise da linguagem poética ou artística). A metodologia de análise adotada atende a critérios técnicos sensíveis. A fundamentação teórica engloba Gaston Bachelard, Arlindo Machado e Gilles Deleuze, com o objetivo de revelar os processos de criação de linguagem audiovisual em cinema documentário que transcende os limites do gênero

This thesis project examines the work of three female Nigerian authors: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta and Chika Unigwe. They are part of a growing number of young African writers who are receiving international acclaim and challenging narratives that have long defined the continent in pejorative terms. They question what it means to be female and African in a transcultural, global world but counter discourses that are both restrictive and prescriptive. Their female characters are not imaged in binary terms as either victims or villains. For all three writers, the African story has to be told in its entirety incorporating what some may argue are negative stereotypes but doing so in a manner that examines and undermines those same stereotypes. For the purposes of the thesis, I focus on their first novels: Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Atta’s Everything Good Will Come and Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street. Chapter One examines Purple Hibiscus and argues that the novel is much more than a coming of age story or, as some critics have posited, an allegory of the postcolonial state. Chapter Two highlights Atta’s use of fairly familiar feminist theories but grounds them in the lived realities of the African city. All three authors are concerned with issues of violence and death. Unigwe’s novel, which forms the focus of Chapter Three, offers a critical perspective on how both of those themes intersect with the increasing commercialisation of global culture. Her characters are female sex workers whose lives are irrevocably altered by the murder of one of their colleagues. I conclude by arguing that the three novels offer a nuanced if not necessarily new understanding of the various social, economic and political forces that continue to shape the lives of women on the continent.