O estranhamento (Verfremdungseffekt) e o Gestus brechtiano nos filmes de Charlie Chaplin

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Luciano Diogo Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/0013000000q62
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8574
• topic: Brecht; Chaplin; Gestus; Estranhamento; Verfremdungseffekt; OUTROS::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS

Charlie Chaplin´s (1889-1977) influences on Bertolt Brecht’s theater (1898-1956) are diverse; also the films of the British director were inspiration for several plays written by the German playwright (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1928/1929), Mother Courage and Her Children (1939); Mr Puntila and his Man Matti (1940), and others). In many parts of Brecht works, diaries and theoretical texts Brecht makes comments about the importance of Chaplin´s cinematographic practice and his character The Tramp, for the constitution of his theater. Some moments Brecht considers Chaplin a model of actor to the epical theater (BRECHT 1995, p. 125; BRECHT 2005A, p. 249, 263, 291; and others). Two central concepts in Brecht´s work are fundamental for the understanding of this relationship: Verfremdungseffekt – the famous Estrangement Effect and the social Gestus. Once these concepts are delimited I search to analyze Chaplin´s work, the process of film construction and the interpretation in silent films as elements that generate estrangement and are structured as a Gestus language. At the first chapter I analyze the historical context of the Weimar’s Germany to understand the constitution of V-Effekt at its time. At the second chapter I assume the idea of the cinema as a revolution on the form of production and reception of art, passing by the Chaplin’s history trying to realize how his films were a large reference to a lot of artists, including Brecht. At the third chapter I study the social Gestus and how it is related with the variety shows and the Chaplin’s artistic works. Finally, at the conclusions, I return to the mail points of this intense dialogue between Brecht and Chaplin, and how this relationship produced uncountable fruits and artistic works. This material requires new theoretical and practical studies (on scream and on stage), considering its large reflexive and critical potential, and more than it, its artistic value.