Aimless roam : the worker as a permanent intruder in brazilian cinema

• Autor(a) principal: Suppia, Alfredo Luiz Paes de Oliveira, 1975-
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório da Produção Científica e Intelectual da Unicamp
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12733/9967
• topic: Trabalho no cinema; Cinema brasileiro; Motion pictures, Brazilian; Work in the cinema; Artigo original

Abstract: The aim of this brief overview is to investigate representations of the worker and the working class in Brazilian cinema. Three feature-length fiction films in particular will emerge as key texts in this analysis: Luís Sérgio Person's São Paulo S.A. (1965), Leon Hirszman's They Don't Wear Black-Tie (Eles Não Usam Black-Tie, 1981), and Beto Brant's The Trespasser (O Invasor, 2001). These films provide useful paradigms for our analysis of possible ruptures and continuities in terms of a film production with a focus on work. Contemporary cinema will also be examined in order to discuss the role of the worker as a constant "intruder." As a whole, this study seeks to demonstrate that the worker, the working class, and labor issues have emerged as recurring motifs that lurk beneath a number of film narratives, even though in an oblique or collateral way