The experience of Armanda Álvaro Alberto at the Cinematographic Censorship Commission

• Autor(a) principal: Saba, Ana Gabriela
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Linhas (Florianópolis. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.periodicos.udesc.br/index.php/linhas/article/view/20748
• topic: cinema educativo; intelectual da educação; Armanda Álvaro Alberto; Comissão de Censura Cinematográfica; educational cinema; intellectual of education; Armanda Álvaro Alberto; Cinematographic Censorship Commission

This article proposes to reflect on the participation of Armanda Álvaro Alberto in the Cinematographic Censorship Commission, as an educational intellectual. For this, he developed the idea of ​​intellectuals and their social role, what was considered educational cinema and the functioning of film censorship in the period. A work developed during the Provisional Government, in the context of Getúlio Vargas' first years as president. In April 1932, Decree 21.240 was published, which aimed to nationalize the cinematographic film censorship service and for that purpose the creation of a Commission. The methodology used is supported by the concept of intellectuals and sociability network used by Jean-François Sirinelli. The sources used were mainly documents from the Cinematographic Censorship Commission that belonged to the SEMEAR collection of the National Museum Archives; the Revista Nacional de Educação and the bibliography references of the analyzed intellectual and historical period. The entire collection of the Cinematographic Censorship Commission was lost in the fire at the National Museum, which occurred in September 2018.