REPRESENTAÇÃO E IDENTIDADE (S) DO CIDADÃO COMUM EM TRÊS DOCUMENTÁRIOS BRASILEIROS CONTEMPORÂNEOS

Abstract

To understand our place in the contemporary world, where media (in its different formats) is responsible for a great amount of the representations of reality we have access to, it is necessary to understand the forms and strategies used by the means of communication to narrate the ordinary man. For the purpose of building identities, media cuts reality which results in framings that gives origin to the stories that become visible, as for example in audiovisual products. The type of use which is made of images of people and daily situations legitimates the political discourse of the media. In cinema, the documentary genre uses reality to build its narratives. To be able to think how this genre narrates otherness, we have selected for analysis documentaries that use the interview method to give voice to Others so we can argument about representation and construction of identities out of this film genre. In order to exemplify and base our arguments, we shall work with three contemporary Brazilian documentaries: À margem da imagem (2003), À margem do concreto (2006) e À margem do lixo (2008), directed by Evaldo Mocarzel. From the analysis of these movies content, considering framing choices, number of interviewed characters, character approach, the exposure or not of the filming crew and backstage, among other criteria, we shall set the analysis of the documentaries and a comparison among them, in order to understand how the representation of the ordinary citizen is made in these movies and consequently the building of identities which come from this representation.

Keywords

• brazilian cinema
• documentary
• identities
• interview
• evaldo mocarzel