From “palace of the artists” to “fake brilliant” of patrimonial policies: social functions of the Cine Teatro Jandaia in the Historic Centre of Salvador (state of Bahia, Brazil 1931-2023)

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Matheusa Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Lysie dos Reis
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Labor & Engenho (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/labore/article/view/8673415
• topic: Cinemas de rua; Memória social; Políticas patrimoniais; Centro antigo de Salvador; Cines de calle; Memoria social; Políticas patrimoniales; Centro antiguo de Salvador; Street cinemas; Social memory; Salvador’s historic center; Heritage policies

The present paper analyzes the transformations in the relations between the Jandaia Movie Theater, built in 1911, and its surroundings in its 110 years of history. Called "Palace of the Artists" during its reopening in 1931, the Jandaia theater arrived in the early 2000s abandoned and, like many buildings in the old urban site of the Old Center of Salvador (CAS), without a social function. The analysis of the trajectory of the movie theater is divided in two moments. In the first, we propose a reading of the symbiosis between the construction of social memory and the oblivion of the CAS regarding its street theaters. To do so, we cut out three phases which we consider remarkable in the trajectory of the movie theater, denominated "entertain", "enjoy" and "pray". In the second block, using empirical research in law, we point out a possible contradiction of the effectiveness of the instruments and urban and heritage laws that directly and/or indirectly affect the safeguarding of this cultural property in concrete preservation actions, since the Jandaia theater is in a situation of urban ruin, close to falling to the street.