Personal is political: analysis of the film O Desafio (Paulo Cesar Saraceni, 1967)

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva, Carolinne Mendes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Carrijo, Aline Fernandes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Pós (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistapos/article/view/36135
• topic: gênero; Cinema Novo; Paulo Cesar Saraceni; Gender; Cinema Novo; Paulo Cesar Saraceni.; Genre; Cinema Novo.; Paulo Cesar Saraceni

This article proposes an analysis of the film O Desafio (Paulo Cesar Saraceni, 1967) connecting it to the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement and to the political and cultural debate of the left in the context established after the civil-military coup of 1964. From a feminist perspective, the article questions how the narrative characterizes the character Ada (Isabella) and her relationship with the protagonist Marcelo (Oduvaldo Vianna Filho). In a decade marked by gender discussions, O Desafio incorporated issues from the private sphere between men and women, relating them to political positions and presenting tensions between the movement for women's liberation and the traditional class struggle in the conception of the left.