Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Ao enfocar o filme de família no contexto da produção pós-moderna, esta dissertação tem por intenção debater a questão da autenticidade, bem como o processo de legitimação cultural de sub-gêneros fílmicos afins surgidos na década de 60, como o filme diário e o filme pessoal. A proliferação deste tipo de produção uma espécie de meio-termo entre auto-etnografias e filmes de arte - desafia as ciências sociais e, mais especificamente, a antropologia visual contemporânea a compreender a emergência de novas formas audiovisuais de representação social. A partir do estudo pioneiro de Bourdieu sobre a função social da fotografia, debate-se a estetização do território familiar e a função social do filme amador. / Focusing on the home movies in the context of post-modern culture, this dissertation intends to debate the question of authenticity, as well as the process of cultural legitimation of filmic sub-genres originated in the sixties: the diary film and the personal film. The proliferation of this type of film production something in-between the autoethnographies and the art films challenges the social sciences and, more specifically, the contemporary visual anthropology to understand the appearance of new audiovisual forms of social representation. The important work of Bourdieu on the social rules of photography is a starting point to debate the aesthetics of private family domain and the social rules of amateur film

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Ao enfocar o filme de família no contexto da produção pós-moderna, esta dissertação tem por intenção debater a questão da autenticidade, bem como o processo de legitimação cultural de sub-gêneros fílmicos afins surgidos na década de 60, como o filme diário e o filme pessoal. A proliferação deste tipo de produção uma espécie de meio-termo entre auto-etnografias e filmes de arte - desafia as ciências sociais e, mais especificamente, a antropologia visual contemporânea a compreender a emergência de novas formas audiovisuais de representação social. A partir do estudo pioneiro de Bourdieu sobre a função social da fotografia, debate-se a estetização do território familiar e a função social do filme amador. / Focusing on the home movies in the context of post-modern culture, this dissertation intends to debate the question of authenticity, as well as the process of cultural legitimation of filmic sub-genres originated in the sixties: the diary film and the personal film. The proliferation of this type of film production something in-between the autoethnographies and the art films challenges the social sciences and, more specifically, the contemporary visual anthropology to understand the appearance of new audiovisual forms of social representation. The important work of Bourdieu on the social rules of photography is a starting point to debate the aesthetics of private family domain and the social rules of amateur film

My thesis explores the act of violation in the context of trauma and healing through the use of personal narratives and experimental film. My research allows personal storytelling to transform into a larger and more universal theme of generational trauma and dysfunction. Through a feminist lens, I challenge social norms of body autonomy for the sick and abused, capitalism’s social effects on the poor, and passed down maternal lessons from the women who are doing the best that they can with the lives and opportunities that they have been given. This work is created in spite of the labels my mother, the women before her, and I may hold. It is an act of resistance to who and what is allowed to be seen or heard. It is my confession, but it is not my confession alone.

This thesis analyses the effect of the personal history of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, two Australian independent filmmakers, on their style of filmmaking. It analyses their representation of film-form experimentation within national Australian art in a range of independent film works. It reflects on their cultural relation to the general history of independent filmmaking in Australia, America and Europe. It studies the circumstances tat resulted in the appearance of the Cantrills' experimental film and their relation to international art theories and film experimentation. This thesis will examine how the Cantrills' film works, which were often critical of conventional filmmaking styles, and their critical writing, statements and promotion of their independent and experimental film work contributed significantly to theoretical discussion and argument about the physical nature of film within Australia. This examination is explored through asking and answering the central question: The work of Aurtheur and Corinne Cantrell is theoretically drawn from a tradition of European arts and visually drawn from Australian landscape and urban culture; can their work be identified and undertood as Australian art?