Paulo Emilio Sales Gomes among his contemporaries (1954-1960)

• Autor(a) principal: Turibio, Thiago
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistafamecos/article/view/41025
• topic: Film Criticism; Paulo Emilio Sales Gomes; Brazilian Cinematographic Field; Crítica de Cine; Paulo Emilio Sales Gomes; Campo Cinematográfico Brasileño; Crítica de Cinema; Paulo Emilio Sales Gomes; Campo Cinematográfico Brasileiro

This article analyzes the insertion of Paulo Emilio Sales Gomes in the subfield of cinema criticism in São Paulo through his writings from the second half of the 1950s. For that purpose, we seek to describe the correlation of forces in the cinematographic field. The description of the field allowed us to review the validity of the scheme that divides criticism between “estheticians” and “historical-critics”. Rather than verifying differences in the details of the evaluation method, we argue that criticism in the 1950s was mainly divided between distinct political sensitivities. Thus, the research indicates that Paulo Emilio stands out when traveling between the different groups of critics without fully joining any of the parties. The corpus analyzed in this article was composed of criticisms and essays on cinema published in the press in the 1950s. We used Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of field and habitus in the analysis in order to indicate the social constraints that explain, in part, the critical positions taken in the period, as well as tools of French discourse analysis.