Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a produção fílmica do cineasta norte-americano Michael Moore, tendo como questão central a relação que se estabelece entre arte e política num momento histórico que, de um lado, aponta para a crise do capitalismo e, de outro, para a fragmentação política da classe trabalhadora. A partir da análise formal de dois de seus filmes, estabelecemos uma relação com os momentos históricos que lhes deram condições de produção, a fim de compreender o método desenvolvido pelo cineasta para lidar com a crise de representação e comunicação vivida pela arte política nas últimas décadas. Os dois filmes escolhidos para tal análise são Roger e Eu (Roger & Me, 1989) e Capitalismo: uma história de amor (Capitalism: a love story, 2009). Ambos os filmes possuem diagnósticos de momentos distintos da crise do capitalismo, juntamente com a constatação de que existe um desmonte da classe trabalhadora, fruto de uma série de mudanças econômicas, políticas e culturais, especialmente ao longo da segunda metade do século XX e início do XXI. Este trabalho faz um estudo comparativo dos dois filmes, traçando as continuidades e mudanças estéticas e políticas ocorridas na obra de Michael Moore num intervalo de duas décadas, bem como sua relação com as condições de representação da luta de classes dentro da cultura norte-americana. Esta pesquisa reflete sobre o surgimento do fenômeno Michael Moore como parte de um processo de construção e desconstrução de uma tradição da classe trabalhadora norte-americana. / This research aims to analyze the film production of the American filmmaker Michael Moore, proposing as a central question the relationship established between art and politics in a historical moment which, on one side, points to the crisis of capitalism and, on the other side, to the political fragmentation of the working class. Starting from the formal analysis of two of his films, we have established a relationship with the historical moments which gave conditions of production to them, in order to understand the method developed by the filmmaker to deal with the crisis of representation and communication experienced by political art in the last decades. The two films chosen for this analysis are Roger & Me (1989) and Capitalism: a love story (2009). Both films have different diagnoses of the distinct moments of the capitalist crisis, along with the realization of the fact there is a dismantling of the working class, result of a series of economic, political and cultural chances, especially during the second half of the 20th century and early 21st century. This research makes a comparison between the two films, tracing the aesthetic and political continuities and changes in the work of Michael Moore which happened throughout two decades, as well as its relation to the conditions of representation of class struggle in American culture. This work reflects on the rise of the Michael Moore phenomenon as part of a process of construction and deconstruction of a tradition of the American working class.

Depuis la fin des années 1990, un certain courant du cinéma américain indépendant s'est développé à travers l'instauration d'une nouvelle communauté culturelle (jeune, intellectuelle, 'branchée'), d'où a découlé la constitution d'un nouveau public-niche à l'image de cette communauté ; mais également à travers l'invention d'une nouvelle imagerie, d'une nouvelle esthétique et de nouveaux modes de narration. notre hypothèse de travail est la suivante : le cinéma indépendant américain contemporain est devenu 'à la mode' et se prétend être la seule alternative sincère et indépendante du marché du cinéma plus grand public. il s'est constitué depuis les années 1990 jusqu'à aujourd'hui comme une véritable catégorie culturelle qui affiche son caractère d'opposition à un style commercial dominant. or les films indépendants américains sont devenus des produits culturels, tout autant que les films plus grand public. ce qui fut par exemple étiqueté un temps comme l'esthétique caractéristique des films indépendants américains est également réemployée et réinterprétée par hollywood qui la réintègre dans un style dominant (valorisation d'un effet 'petit budget', d'un style visuel amateur).le caractère indépendant des films n'est donc pas tant économique, industriel (ils sont d'ailleurs pour la plupart financés en partie par des grands studios) ou esthétique mais il est plutôt vécu comme une catégorie culturelle autonome, comme un mode de consommation culturelle (organisé par des stratégies marketing spécifiques). / As it became more popular, American independent cinema developed a perceptible label and a commercial industry. It is no longer a peripheral or marginalindustry and instead a dominant cultural sphere. This explains why this contemporary phase of independent cinema is commonly criticised or questioned.This popularisation of independent cinema developed media saturation. Everyone seems to have its own definition, which explains the discursive conflict and contradictory definitions of independent cinema. This independent position has exceeded its industrial and economic status. The new independent model questions agenuine American independent cinema even though the existence of it is assimilated in the auteuriste, promotional, critic and spectatorial discourses. Though,independent cinema represents now a cultural label, a culture of taste, and acommunity of elitist consumers in opposition of Hollywood. It organizes different interpretive strategies and expectations that are shared among authors, audiences,critics and distributors. Independent cinema coheres as a cultural category and nolonger just as a set of industrial or formal or stylistic conventions. It is the product of a judgment that we make about a certain cinema. Independent cinema is a perceptive film category.

(in English): This thesis deals with the second war in Indochina (American Vietnam War), its causes, course, political and international contexts and, in particular, its representation in American cinema in the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. In the main part of this thesis, I introduce the most important films dedicated to the Vietnam War while comparing and showing the different approaches of directors to this topic. I present films that deal not only with the war in Vietnam, but also topics that are immediately connected to it, such as the draft, returning veterans and their problems or war heroes. For each movie I endeavor to show the artistic quality or flaws and emphasize the political attitudes of the directors and their relationship to the Vietnam War.

History welcomed the screwball comedy genre in 1934, a time where cinema was in urgent need of providing escapism to audiences victim of the Great Depression. Screwball films, therefore, chose to underline the distinction between social classes and to emphasise on the imperfections of the upper class. The following thesis aims to determine how Depression screwballs (screwball comedies released from 1934 to 1938) used their narrative power to establish this distinction between opposed social classes and how this reflects the undeniable importance of an overlooked genre. It is with a socio-historical approach, personal analyses and observations, that the following research has been conducted. In conclusion, it has been recognised that the genre drew its importance, not only in the way it represents social classes but also how it depicts their mutual interactions, therefore forming a significant whole.

This Master's thesis provides an analysis of the contemporary depiction of significant historical moments in U.S.-Japan relations in American cinematography, specifically in the films: The Last Samurai, Pearl Harbor, Letters from Iwo Jima, and Emperor. The analysis elaborates on theoretical stream of popular culture and world politics and most particularly on the popular geopolitics discipline. A discourse analysis is used as the research method, through which the three main aspects of popular geopolitics in the selected movies are followed - representational logics, affect, and intertextuality. The research goal is to tackle the question, how the historical milestones in U.S.-Japan relations are portrayed in the present and how their portrayal is linked to the current geopolitical context. The research shows that filmmakers usually try to offer a balanced view of both sides, which means there are positive and negative portrayals of both Japanese and American characters. Japanese villains are usually militarists, which is in line with the postwar narrative of the American Occupation administration. The trend of negative portrayal of Americans has been strengthened only recently due to controversies related to the War on Terror. The main finding, however, is the fact that although Japan is...

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« La forme-frontalière : la quête du Nouveau Cinéma Latino-américain d’une esthétique décoloniale » porte un regard actuel sur les débats autour du cinéma et sa capacité d’agir sur le plan géopolitique. Pendant les années 1960 et 1970, les cinéastes du Nouveau Cinéma Latino-américain ont cherché à construire un « nouvel homme latino-américain » appelé à faire la révolution à travers un cinéma de décolonisation. Les six films analysés dans ce travail abordent cette esthétique décoloniale en s'appuyant sur la tradition artistique latino-américaine du syncrétisme culturel dont la pierre angulaire est une appropriation transgressive de l'héritage de la culture coloniale : le Baroque. Dans le premier chapitre nous avons voulu expliquer les racines baroques de la forme-frontalière du NCL. À travers des théories sur la spécificité de la culture latino-américaine, de la littérature et des beaux-arts nous retraçons la ligne historique d’un « esprit décolonial latino-américain » – toujours nourrie par le Baroque – depuis le XVIIème jusqu’à nous jours. En suivant la pensée des spécialistes du Baroque latino-américain, nous proposons que les formes baroques latino-américaines réapparaissent en raison de « cycles » dont le NCL serait le dernier « recyclage » de cette tradition esthétique. Ainsi, le NCL témoignerait une « transposition » du baroque latino-américain au cinéma et d’une « légitimation » de la culture latino-américaine pendant un bouleversement géopolitique. Dans le deuxième chapitre nous avons tenu à expliquer les caractéristiques de la forme-frontalière du NCL et de ses origines dues au processus de transculturation mis en place depuis la « découverte » de l’Amérique. Nous affirmons que l’esthétique du NCL est décolonial car il atteste d’un jeu de perspectives entre les frontières de la modernité, de la colonialité et de l’extra-modernité. Nous analysons le détournement décolonial du NCL à travers deux axes principales : l’esthétique baroque latino-américaine et le Néoréalisme italien. Le Baroque latino-américain, éclectique et parfois anti-colonial, se voit reflété dans l’esprit d’inclusion des formes sensibles de différentes épistémologies. Par rapport à l’influence du Néoréalisme, nous proposons l’hypothèse que ce cinema est aussi l’héritier de la tradition esthétique du Baroque italien. À partir de cette idée nous essayons de tracer deux lignes de développement parallèles et synchroniques de l’histoire du cinéma, d’un côté le « Classicisme cinématographique » et de l’autre le « Baroque cinématographique ». Le Classicisme cinématographique est l’héritier du Classicisme historique et ses fondements formels se trouvent dans le cinéma classique d’Hollywood qui est l’aboutissement d’un système de représentation cohérente. Le Baroque au cinéma, au contraire, est héritier du Baroque historique, c’est-à-dire d’une « autre » esthétique moderne, souterraine et subalterne propre à l’Europe méridionale et au monde colonial. Ainsi, le NCL propose une vision « contre-hégémonique », « subalterne » et « subversive » de l’Amérique latine qui s’oppose à l’histoire officielle du sous-continent. Cette histoire et ce cinéma officiels produits par les élites n'inclussent pas dans les cosmovisions amérindiennes et afro-américaines. Le NCL est produit principalement du point de vue de la colonialité, mais aussi de l’extra-modernité, vers la modernité, détournement du système de représentation classique, qui essaie de tourner en « dérision », ou de rendre « carnavalesque », des formes esthétiques hégémoniques. Le détournement décolonial de l’idée de l’« Amérique latine » aboutit, à travers des formes filmiques, un cinéma, et donc une œuvre artistique, qui peut développer l’imaginaire de la décolonisation. / "The Border-Form: The Quest for New Latin American Cinema with Decolonial Aesthetics" takes a current look at the debates around the cinema and its ability to act on the geopolitical level. During the 1960s and 1970s, filmmakers of the New Latin American Cinema sought to build a "new Latin American man" called to make the revolution through a decolonization cinema. The six films analyzed in this work address this decolonial aesthetic based on the Latin American artistic tradition of cultural syncretism whose cornerstone is a transgressive appropriation of the legacy of colonial culture: the Baroque.In the first chapter we have explained the characteristics of the border-form of the NCL and its origins due to the process of transculturation set up since the "discovery" of America. We affirm that the aesthetics of the NCL is decolonial because it attests to a play of perspectives between the borders of the modernity, the coloniality and the extra-modernity. We analyze the détournement decolonial of the NCL through two main axes: Latin American Baroque aesthetics and Italian Neorealism. The Latin-American Baroque, eclectic and sometimes anti-colonial, is reflected in the spirit of inclusion of the sensitive forms of different epistemologies. With regard to the influence of Neorealism, we propose the hypothesis that this cinema is also the heir of the aesthetic tradition of the Italian Baroque. From this idea we try to draw two lines of parallel and synchronic development of the history of the cinema, on the one hand the "Cinematographic Classicism" and on the other hand the "Cinematographic Baroque".Film Classicism is the heir of Classicism and its formal foundations are found in the classic Hollywood cinema that is the culmination of a coherent representation system. Baroque cinema, on the contrary, is heir to the historic Baroque, that is to say, of another "other" moderne, subterranean and subaltern aesthetic peculiar to southern Europe and the colonial world. Thus, the NCL proposes a "counter-hegemonic", "subaltern" and "subversive" vision of Latin America that opposes the official history of the subcontinent. This official history and cinema produced by the elites do not include in Amerindian and Afro-American cosmovisions. The NCL is produced mainly from the point of view of coloniality, but also from extra-modernity, towards modernity, the détournement of the classical representation system, which tries to turn into "derision", or to make "carnivalesque", hegemonic aesthetic forms. The decolonial détournement of the idea of "Latin America" leads through filmic forms, a cinema, and therefore an artistic work, which can contribute to the development of the decolonization imaginary.

Esta tese analisa as representações estéticas e ideológicas na prática do documentário no Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (NCL) a partir dos discursos dos cineastas Geraldo Sarno (Brasil), Raymundo Gleyzer (Argentina) e Santiago Álvarez (Cuba), entre os anos de 1964 e 1974. Para isso, estabelecemos paralelos entre a prática das realizações destes cineastas e os ideais e posições teóricas defendidos nos manifestos cinematográficos produzidos nestes países; bem como examinamos as vozes da produção discursiva que, neste período, enunciavam o cinema como instrumento de transformação social na América Latina. Além disso, investigou-se o processo de produção (da filmagem à exibição), elemento-chave para se entender o cinema social, militante e revolucionário dessa época, já que estes cineastas atuavam via de regra fora do circuito comercial de exibição. Por fim, indagamos em que medida o documentário se constituiu enquanto narrativa histórica. Em suma, a pesquisa almejou aprofundar os estudos sobre a produção documental no Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, buscando interações entre teoria e prática, cinema e história e os significados dessas produções documentais para esse momento histórico, político e cultural da América Latina. / This tesis analyzes the aesthetic and ideological representations in the practice of documentary in the New Latin American Cinema (NCL) from the speeches Raymundo Gleyzer (Argentina), Geraldo Sarno (Brazil) and Santiago Álvarez (Cuba), between the years 1964 and 1974. For this, we established parallels between the practice of the achievements of these filmmakers and theoretical positions espoused in manifestos film produced in these countries, as well as examined the voices of discursive production, which, in this period, enunciated the cinema as a tool of social transformation in Latin America. Furthermore, we investigated the process of production (filming to distribution), a key element for understanding the political cinema of that time, as these filmmakers acted as a rule outside the commercial circuit display. Finally, we inquired how the documentary can be a historical narrative. In short, this research purposed to deepen the studies of the documentary in the New Latin American Cinema, seeking interactions between theory and practice, film and history and the meanings of these documentary productions for this moment in history, politics and culture in Latin America

Este projeto analisa quatro filmes da América Latina que têm como ponto comum o fato de estarem centrados em personagens que realizam viagens em seus países de origem (dois filmes) e na América do Sul (outros dois). O objetivo é demarcar nestas obras construídas sob a necessidade do deslocamento, dados constitutivos de identidade e pertencimento a uma dada geografia física e humana. Os que percorrem a América Latina são Diários de Motocicleta, dirigido pelo brasileiro Walter Salles e El viaje la aventura de ser joven, do cineasta argentino Fernando Ezequiel Pino Solanas. Os que centram suas narrativas em território nacional são Central do Brasil, também de Walter Salles, e Facundo, la sombra del tigre, do diretor argentino Nicolás Sarquís. O estudo aborda a relação dessas obras com o contexto cultural e político da América Latina dos anos 60, com destaque pontual a Brasil e Argentina, e discute como se apropriam do gênero road movie. Defende, ainda, que os quatro expõem e traduzem uma das tensões centrais da pós-modernidade, que é a sua convivência com o universo cultural da chamada modernidade sólida. Tal procedimento deriva principalmente da condição de percorrer a estrada e nela afirmar uma identidade configurada por valores quase sempre idealizados e nostálgicos, formando um conjunto de filmes que expressa a persistência das ficções-nacionais e pan-continentais no cinema contemporâneo de Brasil e Argentina. / This project will analyze four Latin American movies that have in common the fact of being centered in characters that travel around their country of origin (two movies) and South America (two other movies). The objective is to demarcate in these movies, which were built under the need of displacement, relevant information regarding the identity and belonging of a given physical and human geography.The two movies that take place in Latin America are Diários de Motocicleta, directed by the Brazilian Walter Salles and El viaje la aventura de ser joven, from the Argentinean filmmaker Fernando Ezequiel Pino Solanas. The other two movies that focus their narratives on national territory are Central do Brasil also from Walter Salles and Facundo, la sombra del tigre from Argentinean director Nicolás Sarquís. The study addresses the relationship of these works with the political and cultural context in Latin America on the 60s, with focus on Brazil and Argentina, and discusses how these movies also appropriate the road movie style. It also defends the idea that these movies expose and reflect one of the central tensions of post-modernity, which is its coexistence with the cultural universe called solid modernity. This procedure comes mainly from the condition of riding the road and on it reaffirming an identity shaped by values that are, almost always, idealized and nostalgic, forming a set of films that express the persistency of national fixation and pan-continental for Brazil and Argentinas contemporary cinema.

Este projeto analisa quatro filmes da América Latina que têm como ponto comum o fato de estarem centrados em personagens que realizam viagens em seus países de origem (dois filmes) e na América do Sul (outros dois). O objetivo é demarcar nestas obras construídas sob a necessidade do deslocamento, dados constitutivos de identidade e pertencimento a uma dada geografia física e humana. Os que percorrem a América Latina são Diários de Motocicleta, dirigido pelo brasileiro Walter Salles e El viaje la aventura de ser joven, do cineasta argentino Fernando Ezequiel Pino Solanas. Os que centram suas narrativas em território nacional são Central do Brasil, também de Walter Salles, e Facundo, la sombra del tigre, do diretor argentino Nicolás Sarquís. O estudo aborda a relação dessas obras com o contexto cultural e político da América Latina dos anos 60, com destaque pontual a Brasil e Argentina, e discute como se apropriam do gênero road movie. Defende, ainda, que os quatro expõem e traduzem uma das tensões centrais da pós-modernidade, que é a sua convivência com o universo cultural da chamada modernidade sólida. Tal procedimento deriva principalmente da condição de percorrer a estrada e nela afirmar uma identidade configurada por valores quase sempre idealizados e nostálgicos, formando um conjunto de filmes que expressa a persistência das ficções-nacionais e pan-continentais no cinema contemporâneo de Brasil e Argentina. / This project will analyze four Latin American movies that have in common the fact of being centered in characters that travel around their country of origin (two movies) and South America (two other movies). The objective is to demarcate in these movies, which were built under the need of displacement, relevant information regarding the identity and belonging of a given physical and human geography.The two movies that take place in Latin America are Diários de Motocicleta, directed by the Brazilian Walter Salles and El viaje la aventura de ser joven, from the Argentinean filmmaker Fernando Ezequiel Pino Solanas. The other two movies that focus their narratives on national territory are Central do Brasil also from Walter Salles and Facundo, la sombra del tigre from Argentinean director Nicolás Sarquís. The study addresses the relationship of these works with the political and cultural context in Latin America on the 60s, with focus on Brazil and Argentina, and discusses how these movies also appropriate the road movie style. It also defends the idea that these movies expose and reflect one of the central tensions of post-modernity, which is its coexistence with the cultural universe called solid modernity. This procedure comes mainly from the condition of riding the road and on it reaffirming an identity shaped by values that are, almost always, idealized and nostalgic, forming a set of films that express the persistency of national fixation and pan-continental for Brazil and Argentinas contemporary cinema.