CARAVANA FARKAS (1968/1970): a cultura popular (re)interpretada pelo filme documentário ¾ um estudo de folkmídia.

• Autor(a) principal: D almeida, Alfredo Dias
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/743
• topic: cultura popular; documentário; Caravana Farkas; folkmídia.; Comunicação - Teses e dissertações; folk culture; documentary movie; Caravana Farkas; folkmedia.; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

This work seeks to identify the ways in which folk culture is (re)interpreted in the mass media through the analysis of documentary movies produced between 1968 and 1970 in the Northeast by Caravana Farkas; the pioneer in documenting the manifests of the Brazilian folk culture. In order to accomplish such purpose, Farkas s documentaries are discussed in this study as to how they fit in the Brazilian political-cultural perspective of the 60 s. This study also looks at which conditions allowed for the building of Farkas s speeches, the rules such speeches established, and finally how and why such folk cultural manifestations have become object of study and attention of the so many movie makers ¾ and what was defined by them as folk culture . The basic theme that transpires in Farkas s documentaries is one of the other culture, one which has its place in the past and does not belong in the here and now of modernity. The individuality and the representation of the other are trespassed by the social differences and the character of the political and cultural resistance of the folk culture. In the movie makers point of view, much is lost in the appearances of a world whose destiny has already been determined: the extinction. The documentaries, on the other hand, serve as a mean of confrontation between the different cultures and also as a mean of dialogue between them, generating new and multiple meanings that do not depend on the movie makers will. As a consequence, a new speech about a determined reality arises to life. Not much as an image (as the one seen in a mirror), but more a reference of a time and space that cannot be relived. On the tracks of the folk culture, the trip of the Caravana Farkas does not lead to a final or tranquil ending; for it is intertwined by contradictions and incompatibilities that questions aroused by the discussion of reality brings about. But the trip makes evident that its importance for the studies in Communication is in its own journey and in its permanent and endless dialogue between cultures it provokes.