This thesis investigates fifty years of Uruguayan cinema in order to revisit the relationship between cinema and nation, at a time in which transnational flows are putting into question the concept of nation and, more precisely, that of national cinema. This investigation also contributes to current discussions on the changing nature of cinema, generated by the fast adoption of digital technology and the imminent disappearance of film stock. Through the case of Uruguay, I explore the construction of national identity not only through the text, but also through the – filmic, digital and/or analogue – materiality of film. This approach incorporates aspects which are not usually studied together to contribute to the analysis of Uruguayan cinema in a manner potentially applicable to other nations with similar characteristics; that is to say, nations without an established film heritage and filmmaking tradition. Informed by writings on film, cultural, historical and archival studies, this thesis approaches films as ‘hybrid' rather than ‘pure' or ‘authentic' texts and media. I argue that both the text and materiality of films absorb, influence and reflect the dynamic processes involved in the construction of national identity. Rather than seeking for authenticity and homogeneity, this thesis stresses the necessity to focus on discontinuity and diversity. Therefore, it analyses lost and under-researched short, documentary, animation and institutional films and videos, alongside feature fiction films. First, I present a theoretical discussion on the relationship between nation and cinema, the concept of hybridity in film studies, and the importance of technology for production, preservation and access. This is followed by four chronological chapters in which the hybrid text and materiality of films are analysed in contexts of social and political upheaval; dictatorship, resistance and exile; transition; and neo-liberalism and globalisation. This thesis demonstrates that the ties between cinema and nation have not necessarily loosened in the global and digital age, and still deserve critical attention.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-06-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:54:43Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 comiran_f_me_assis.pdf: 492785 bytes, checksum: d1d8d4a0d4598b20ba7ebff583d16140 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Na segunda década do século XIX, a região platina, zona de intersecção entre os impérios lusitano e hispânico na América Meridional ao longo de já alguns séculos, tornou-se palco, dentro da força motriz das independências hispano-americanas, de uma onda de movimentos e agitamentos políticos contundentes: o próprio processo independentista bonaerense, o movimento federalista de José Gervásio Artigas e, articulando-se a tais episódios, o sempre presente projeto português de ocupação da Banda Oriental, o qual foi materializado com as intervenções de 1811 e 1816. Neste trabalho serão apresentados os contextos políticos que cercavam os espaços políticos envolvidos nestas duas ações militares de Portugal. A Europa era afetada pelos ideais e práticas do imperialismo napoleônico e na península ibérica a crise política se aprofundava ao mesmo tempo em que os movimentos de resistência cresciam. A região platina, por sua vez, recebia as influências políticas desse cenário: a crise de legitimidade dinástica após o aprisionamento de Fernando VII, os movimentos revolucionários e o audaz projeto de Carlota Joaquina para se tornar Regente da Espanha formaram um ambiente propício para que a diplomacia portuguesa tornasse o antigo projeto expansionista lusitano uma realidade. Assim, neste trabalho buscar-se-á reconstruir os episódios políticos que cercaram e, até mesmo, motivaram as duas intervenções portuguesas na Banda Oriental do Uruguai. / During the second decade of the XIX century, the platine region intersecting the Portuguese and Spanish empires in the Meridional America, as a result of Spanish and American independence, became the center of a wave of important political movements and agitations: the independence actions in Buenos Aires, the federalist campaign of José Gervásio Artigas, and, cunningly articulated with such events, the permanently present Portuguese project of occupying the Eastern Zone, which was materialized by interventions that took place in 1811 and 1816. The political context associated to the political spaces involved in these two military actions undertaken by Portugal will be presented in this paper. The ideals disseminated by Napoleonic imperialism were affecting Europe, while the political crisis was aggravated and the resistence movements increased in the Iberian peninsula. The platine region was affected by the political actions under way in this such scenario: the dynastic legitimacy crisis following the imprisonment of Fernando VII, the revolutionary movements, and the daring project of Carlota Joaquina to became the Regent of Spain composed a favorable environment for the Portuguese diplomacy to implement its old expansionist project. Therefore, the reconstruction of the political events surrounding – and even motivating – both Portuguese interventions in the Eastern Zone of Uruguay will be sought in this paper.

Orientador: Clodoaldo Bueno / Banca: Fernando da Silva Camargo / Banca: José Luis Bendicho Beired / Resumo: Na segunda década do século XIX, a região platina, zona de intersecção entre os impérios lusitano e hispânico na América Meridional ao longo de já alguns séculos, tornou-se palco, dentro da força motriz das independências hispano-americanas, de uma onda de movimentos e agitamentos políticos contundentes: o próprio processo independentista bonaerense, o movimento federalista de José Gervásio Artigas e, articulando-se a tais episódios, o sempre presente projeto português de ocupação da Banda Oriental, o qual foi materializado com as intervenções de 1811 e 1816. Neste trabalho serão apresentados os contextos políticos que cercavam os espaços políticos envolvidos nestas duas ações militares de Portugal. A Europa era afetada pelos ideais e práticas do imperialismo napoleônico e na península ibérica a crise política se aprofundava ao mesmo tempo em que os movimentos de resistência cresciam. A região platina, por sua vez, recebia as influências políticas desse cenário: a crise de legitimidade dinástica após o aprisionamento de Fernando VII, os movimentos revolucionários e o audaz projeto de Carlota Joaquina para se tornar Regente da Espanha formaram um ambiente propício para que a diplomacia portuguesa tornasse o antigo projeto expansionista lusitano uma realidade. Assim, neste trabalho buscar-se-á reconstruir os episódios políticos que cercaram e, até mesmo, motivaram as duas intervenções portuguesas na Banda Oriental do Uruguai. / Abstract: During the second decade of the XIX century, the platine region intersecting the Portuguese and Spanish empires in the Meridional America, as a result of Spanish and American independence, became the center of a wave of important political movements and agitations: the independence actions in Buenos Aires, the federalist campaign of José Gervásio Artigas, and, cunningly articulated with such events, the permanently present Portuguese project of occupying the Eastern Zone, which was materialized by interventions that took place in 1811 and 1816. The political context associated to the political spaces involved in these two military actions undertaken by Portugal will be presented in this paper. The ideals disseminated by Napoleonic imperialism were affecting Europe, while the political crisis was aggravated and the resistence movements increased in the Iberian peninsula. The platine region was affected by the political actions under way in this such scenario: the dynastic legitimacy crisis following the imprisonment of Fernando VII, the revolutionary movements, and the daring project of Carlota Joaquina to became the Regent of Spain composed a favorable environment for the Portuguese diplomacy to implement its old expansionist project. Therefore, the reconstruction of the political events surrounding - and even motivating - both Portuguese interventions in the Eastern Zone of Uruguay will be sought in this paper. / Mestre

Orientador: Jose Alves de Freitas Neto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T08:09:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sordi_GabrielSouza_M.pdf: 849340 bytes, checksum: 62791fa3cae06b4406b8b3c6de32e1fb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A presente dissertação analisa como foi apresentado o prócer uruguaio José Artigas nos artigos publicados por historiadores, intelectuais e escritores no jornal El País, durante o mês de setembro de 1950, em que se comemorou o centenário de sua morte. Para isso, previamente foram elucidadas questões concernentes ao discurso pátrio latino-americano e à apresentação e rememoração dos heróis responsabilizados pela conquista das independências na América Hispânica - bem como uma análise dos três tomos da obra José Artigas: Alegato Histórico (1909-10), de Eduardo Acevedo Vásquez, que auxiliou a configurar, no início do século XX, a figura de Artigas como herói máximo uruguaio. / Abstract: This study analyses how the uruguaian hero José Artigas was presented in articles published by historians, intellectuals and writers in the newspaper El País, over 1950' september, during the commemoration of his centennial's death. To base the discussion, first was expatietan questions about the latin-american nationalism's discourse and questions about the recall and presentation of the latin-american heroes of the independences from Spanish - beyond a analysis of the three tomes of José Artigas: Alegato Histórico (1909-10), a Eduardo Acevedo Vásquez' work, who helps to configurate in Uruguay, in the beginning of XX' century, the image of Artigas like the utmost uruguaian heroe. / Mestrado / Historia Cultural / Mestre em História

Utilizing both primary and secondary literature, this study attempts to illustrate that the origins of one of Latin America’s most significant wars, the Paraguayan War (1864-70), are understandable only when viewed within the context of the historical development of the Rio de la Plata as a region. Adopting the framework provided by Robert N. Burr in his pioneering work on the South American continental balance of power system. “By Reason or Force: Chile and the Balancing of Power in South America, 1830-1905” (Berkely, 1965), this thesis examines one particular outgrowth of the historical process in the Rio de Plata: The development of a regional balance of power in the area. It also illustrates that such systems of international power politics are not necessarily promotive of stability and equanimity in the relations between nations: that balance of power systems are not static but constantly changing, and that such changes are conducive to friction, intrigue, and war.

Orientador: Leandro Karnal / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T09:31:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kalil_LuisGuilhermeAssis_M.pdf: 7746400 bytes, checksum: 3306c0d183730cdda8b1d228fae72a4b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa busca analisar os discursos sobre os habitantes do Novo Mundo presentes na crônica de Ulrico Schmidl. Após permanecer por cerca de dezessete anos no sul da América (1536 ¿ 1553), o soldado bávaro retornou à Europa, onde se converteu à fé protestante e escreveu sua Viaje al Río de la Plata. A partir de seu relato, pretendemos observar de que forma elementos como o canibalismo, também descritos por outros autores (como Jean de Léry e Hans Staden), influenciaram as narrativas de viajantes, em especial, em questões como a humanidade dos indígenas e as dúvidas referentes às possibilidades de escravização e conversão. Pretendemos ainda examinar de que forma essas descrições foram utilizadas como base para os mútuos ataques entre católicos e protestantes no período / Abstract: This research aims to analyze the New World inhabitants¿ discourses at the Ulrico Schmidl¿s chronicle. After approximately seventeen years at South America (1536 ¿ 1553), the Bavarian soldier has returned to Europe, where he has converted himself to the protestant faith and has written his Viaje al Río de la Plata. Based on his account we intend to observe how elements like cannibalism, also described by others authors (like Jean de Léry and Hans Staden), have influenced the travelers narratives, especially about humanity of Indigenous and doubts about the possibilities of his enslaver and conversion. We still intend to study how these descriptions were utilized in mutual attacks between Catholics and Protestants / Mestrado / Historia Cultural / Mestre em História