Mississippi em Chamas e Panteras Negras no intervalo entre História e cinema

Abstract

This study analyzes two cinematographic productions: Alan Parker s Mississippi Burning and Mario Van Peebles Panther. The aim is to evaluate how these directors work themes of great historic relevance and how the viewers and the critics received them. These Movies occupy themselves, for instance, of racial segregation and the fight for the civil rights occurred in the United States. These themes, how known, were target of big polemics, and part of them was created by both movies mentioned here. This study has many questions as anchors: how much these works can be understood by historic narratives ? The director s role can be compared to the historian s? How the truths instituted by these movies are received by the viewer, and how variable can be the critical placements? To deal with these inquiries, it s been chosen to invest in the relation between History and Cinema, what encourages the review of articles and everlasting discussions, specially the one that involves the pair History/Fiction.