Como se fossem insetos : África e ideologia no cinema contemporâneo

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Marcos Jose de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6005
• topic: África; Cinema hegemônico; Eurocentrismo; Cultura Histórica; Africa; hegemonic film; Eurocentrism; Historical Culture; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The image of Africa in contemporary hegemonic film does not make up a mere object to be aesthetic appreciation or depreciation, and moreover, that image is a tangible indicator of a contemporary political practice whose roots are embedded in the Eurocentric colonial discourse of the nineteenth century. In this dissertation, the intellectual effort is directed towards showing the ways in which hegemonic contemporary cinema represents the African continent, what is done after a historical review of how this image of Africa was built by European intellectuals in the late nineteenth century , which served the interests invented this image, which supplied him with arguments legitimizing support and ways by which this image was popularized. At the end, is made a sketch of the bridge that connects the political situation of the late nineteenth century, which spawned the invention of Africa, the beginning of the century, which means that the image remains popular, and some considerations on the relationship between films and craft of the historian. More than mere curiosity or pursuit of scholarship, this dissertation is a conscious attempt to engage in a broad intellectual effort of decolonization of knowledge.