Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BertrandSL.pdf: 5194942 bytes, checksum: 172935cab0057c5d225f82961826ae8f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-03-13 / The present investigation proposes an approach of light and shadow and their imaginary significations in the images of both German expressionist movie and the American noir movie, whose aesthetic experience is expressed through a contrasting bright/dark photography, loaded with symbolism. The interpretation of the imaginary significations of this imagistic material is based on Gilbert Durand?s imaginary anthropological theories that deal with a myriad of symbols gathered according to their semantic isomorphism and linked to more general structures named as Daily and nightly Image Regime . There come to gravitate, around such regimes, symbols attached to division and purification, ascensional and spectacular, with imaginary significations homological to Light and Good, and symbols associated to night, fall and animalism, isomorphic of Shadow and Evil / A presente investiga??o prop?e uma abordagem da luz e da sombra e de suas significa??es imagin?rias nas imagens do cinema expressionista alem?o e do cinema noir americano, cuja experi?ncia est?tica se traduz numa contrastante fotografia em claro-escuro carregada de simbolismo. A interpreta??o das significa??es imagin?rias desse material imag?tico est? fundamentada nas teorias antropol?gicas do imagin?rio de Gilbert Durand que tratam de uma mir?ade de s?mbolos agrupados segundo seu isomorfismo sem?ntico e reunidos em estruturas mais gerais denominadas de Regime Diurno e Regime Noturno da Imagem . Neles, v?m gravitar os s?mbolos diair?ticos (divis?o e purifica??o), ascensionais e espetaculares, com significa??es imagin?rias em homologia com a luz e o Bem, e os s?mbolos nictom?rficos (da noite), catam?rficos (da queda) e teriom?rficos (da animalidade) associados ? sombra e ao Mal