Orientador: Jose Mario Ortiz Ramos / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T06:52:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Suppia_AlfredoLuizPaesdeOliveira_D.pdf: 9340023 bytes, checksum: a06cd67c3581b1864a2be95dce072a73 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: ¿A Ficção Científica no Brasil: Um planeta quase desabitado.¿ Esse é o título de um artigo do crítico e escritor Fausto Cunha1, referente à literatura de ficção científica, mas que poderia ser aplicado também à análise do gênero no cinema brasileiro. Na Europa, nos EUA e no Japão, o cinema de ficção científica encontra terreno fértil. Sua relevância estética e econômica é evidente, desde o período mudo, sendo até hoje freqüente objeto de estudo. No Brasil, entretanto, a situação é um pouco diferente, uma vez que a ficção científica cinematográfica tem sido frequentemente encarada como algo ¿fora de lugar¿. Afinal, podemos falar de ficção científica no cinema brasileiro? Esta tese traz uma resposta afirmativa a essa pergunta, muito embora tenhamos de levar em consideração algumas peculiaridades. Ao contrário dos EUA e Europa, o Brasil não tem grande tradição no estudo da ficção científica. Apesar disso, escritores brasileiros de ficção científica têm obtido reconhecimento internacional, e o cinema brasileiro tem tido experiências na produção de filmes do gênero. Por exemplo, manifestações da ficção científica no cinema brasileiro podem ser detectadas em comédias ou chanchadas dos anos 1940/50, distopias ecológicas dos anos 1970/80 e na produção mais recente, da retomada aos dias atuais. Mas por que o cinema brasileiro de ficção científica não tem tido maior desenvolvimento e visibilidade? Esta e outras perguntas serão discutidas neste trabalho, com base em bibliografia geral e especializada, análise fílmica e entrevistas com autores, cineastas e pesquisadores. Em suma, o objetivo desta tese é levantar um novo debate mais detido acerca da ficção científica no cinema brasileiro e demais cinematografias que não a hollywoodiana, apresentando um panorama que busca melhor compreender o passado, presente e futuro de um gênero que insiste em sobreviver numa atmosfera muitas vezes hostil e rarefeita / Abstract: ¿SF in Brazil: A barely inhabited planet¿ is the title of Fausto Cunha¿s essay on Brazilian science fiction literature, and the starting point for this paper, as this approach could be also applied to the study of Brazilian science fiction cinema. In Europe, the United States and Japan, science fiction film has a long history since the early days of cinema, and continues to find fertile ground still today. Its economical and aesthetical relevance is outstanding and widely recognized. However, in Brazil the situation is rather different, and a national science fiction cinema is usually overlooked by film critics and scholars. Then again, can one talk about science fiction in Brazilian cinema? This dissertation brings an affirmative answer to this question, even though considering some particular features. Contrary to the United States and Europe, Brazil does not have a tradition in science fiction studies. Despite this fact, Brazilian science fiction writers have been awarded around the world and Brazilian cinema does have experiences in science fiction film production ¿ for example, from the 1940/50¿s comedies and chanchadas to 1970/80¿s ecological distopias and fin-de-siècle dark comedies. But why has Brazilian science fiction cinema been prevented from further development? This question, among others, will be herein discussed, based on general and specific bibliography, film analysis and interviews with writers, scholars and filmmakers. In sum, the aim of this paper is to raise a new and careful discussion on science fiction in the Brazilian cinema and other off-Hollywood filmographies, outlining a panorama that attempts to better understand the past, present and future of a genre that insists on surviving in a rather hostile and rarefied atmosphere / Doutorado / Doutor em Multimeios

The politicized use of humor in accented cinema is a tool for negotiating particular formations of identity, such as sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and class. The body of work produced by contemporary women filmmakers working in Australia, specifically Tracey Moffatt, Monica Pellizzari, and Clara Law, illustrates how these directors have employed critical humor as a response to their multiple marginalization as women, Australian, and accented filmmakers. In their works, humor functions as a critical tool to deconstruct the contradictions in dominant discourses as they relate to (neo)colonial, racist, globalized, patriarchal, and displaced pasts and presents. Produced within Australian national cinema, but emerging from experiences of geographical displacements that defy territorial borders, their films illuminate how critical humor can inflect such accepted categories as the national constitution of a cinema, film genre, and questions of exile and diaspora. Critical humor thus consti tutes a cinematic signifying practice able, following Luigi Pirandello's description of umorismo, to decompose the filmic text, and as a tool for an ideological critique of cinema and its role in (re)producing discourses of the nation predicated on the dominant categories of whiteness and masculinity. The study offers a theoretical framework for decoding humor in a film text, focusing on the manipulation of cinematic language, and it provides a model for a criticism that wishes to heighten the counter-hegemonic potential of cinematic texts, by picking up on the humorous, contradictory openings of the text and widening them through a parallel dissociating process. / Finally, critical humor in the accented cinema of women filmmakers like Moffatt, Pellizzari, and Law is shown to constitute a form of translation and negotiation performed between the national, monologic constraints of film production and cinematic language, the heteroglossia of the global imaginaries that have traveled since the beginning with film technology, and the local and diasporic accents informing a filmmaker's unique style and perspective. / by Alessandra Senzani. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008. / Includes bibliography and filmography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web.