Joaquim Pedro de Andrade and Modernism

Authors

  • Ivan Francisco Marques USP ‒ Universidade de São Paulo ‒ Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas ‒ São Paulo ‒ SP ‒ Brasil. 05508-090 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3117-9114

Keywords:

Brazilian Modernism, Cinema Novo, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Literature and Cinema,

Abstract

This essay investigates the connection between Cinema Novo and Modernism. Decisive for the formation of modern Brazilian cinema, the revival of the avant-garde literary legacy in the 1960s took place on multiple fronts: in formal experimentation, linked to the common desire for updating; in the adoption of a nationalist and anticolonialist ideology; in the artists’ involvement with popular culture and political struggle; in the critical interpretations regarding the country and the dramas rooted in Brazilian history. The reflection focuses on Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, director who carried out, from the beginning to the end of his work, a continuous exploration of the modernist characters, environment, ideas and concerns. Instead of the realist literature of 1930, which was so important to Cinema Novo in its first phase, what inspired the film production of Joaquim Pedro was the transgressive and parodist attitude, and the mythical, utopian (but, paradoxically, pessimistic) views of the 1922 generation.

Author Biography

Ivan Francisco Marques, USP ‒ Universidade de São Paulo ‒ Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas ‒ São Paulo ‒ SP ‒ Brasil. 05508-090

Professor do Departamento  de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas / Área de Literatura Brasileira

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Published

16/03/2020

Issue

n. 49, 2019

Section

The cinema and its doubles

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