This PhD by practice is an attempt to understand personal archives through filmmaking, and the kind of knowledge we can extract from them as well as how we can connect them to a wider social and political context. These questions are the core of my research and are explored in their different ways through both the film/practice and dissertation. I have chosen to make a film about my absent grandfather and his lost relationship with my mother during Fascist Portugal between the 1940s and the 1960s. Family archives have been largely used in films as a way of documenting realities, in the same way as any other public archival footage. In this instance, I tried to explore family and official archives acknowledging their contradictions and omissions with a view to finding a new “way of knowing” that is more closely connected to our emotions. I believe we all own a family archive regardless of its form. I named this archive “the subjective archive” and in it, I include physical archives such as paper documents, photographs and films, as well as a more intangible archive, which includes our memories, the stories we tell and listen to (oral history) and our dreams. The progression of the film is closely related to my journey as I become immersed in the story and learn things through many layers of archive documents. As a conclusion, I argue that these invisible elements of the subjective archive contain truth independent of their indexical nature, whereas physical documents can mislead us.

Submitted by Cássia Santos (cassia.bcufg@gmail.com) on 2015-11-27T07:07:20Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Thaise Monteiro da Silva Melo - 2015.pdf: 736307 bytes, checksum: 6ce29f6d97a6ec9dfab436f2e060f3e8 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-11-27T07:30:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Thaise Monteiro da Silva Melo - 2015.pdf: 736307 bytes, checksum: 6ce29f6d97a6ec9dfab436f2e060f3e8 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-27T07:30:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Thaise Monteiro da Silva Melo - 2015.pdf: 736307 bytes, checksum: 6ce29f6d97a6ec9dfab436f2e060f3e8 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-11 / The theme of this research is the city as a reference in the creation of three Brazilian poets of modernity, Manuel Bandeira, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Cora Coralina. From this place that presents itself and its subjectivity, and the individual’s uneasiness from an objective and collective reality. Based on individual and collective’s memories and in the autobiography the poets build images of their cities and then rebuild them into words. The main objective of this research is to comprehend how the hometowns representations of our authors, Recife, Itabira, and the City of Goiás are arranged, and subsequently, to establish between them the resemblances, the confluents and the divergent relationships. In our work, we propose initially to rescue some of the lyric poetry’s theories, the image and the representation and, through the powerful lines and trends that are acquired with modernity. Then, we articulate a thought about the city and its relationship with literature, modern poetry, memory and autobiography. The city is analyzed as much as in its physical and geographical aspects, as the human, represented by those who inhabit this space. The poets choice regarding the subjects, spaces and beings that compose his poetry, related to the moment lived by them, are considered with the purpose to understand the tools and means used by Bandeira, Drummond and Cora to represent the cities where they were born, and raised during their childhoods. / O tema desta pesquisa é a cidade como referência na criação de três poetas da modernidade brasileira, Manuel Bandeira, Carlos Drummond de Andrade e Cora Coralina. A partir desse espaço e da sua subjetivação, da apreensão individual de uma realidade objetiva e coletiva, os poetas criam imagens de suas cidades, as recriam por meio de palavras, fundamentados nas memórias individual e coletiva e na autobiografia. O principal objetivo desta pesquisa é verificar como se configuram as representações de Recife, Itabira e Cidade de Goiás, cidades natais de nossos autores, estabelecendo semelhanças, relações de confluências e divergências entre eles. Em nosso trabalho, nos propomos, inicialmente a resgatar algumas teorias da poesia lírica, da representação e da imagem, passando pelas linhas de força e tendências que adquirem na modernidade. Em seguida formulamos um pensamento acerca da cidade e sua relação com a literatura e a poesia moderna, com a memória e a autobiografia. A cidade é analisada em seus aspectos, tanto físicos e geográficos, quanto o humano, representado por aqueles que habitam esse espaço. As escolhas dos poetas no que diz respeito aos temas, espaços e seres que compõem sua poesia em relação ao momento por eles vivido, são consideradas com intuito de entender as ferramentas e meios utilizados por Bandeira, Drummond e Cora para representar as cidades onde nasceram e viveram suas infâncias. Palavras-chave: Poesia; cidade; representação; imagem; modernidade; memória e