Claro: a constituição de sujeitos e a produção de identidades sociopolíticas em discursos no cinema

Abstract

This paper has a theoretical-methodological foundation in French Discourse Analysis and its studies in Brazil. We take as reference the concept of discourse, understood as regularity and, at the same time, such as dispersion, and, more specifically, the notions of memory, meaning, subject, identity and power. We adopted Glauber Rocha s film Claro (Italy, 1975) as a corpus, in its complex materiality of verbal, visual and sound language, in order to investigate how they produced sociopolitical identities. Claro is organized into short narratives marked by political and historical context, in which is constant the presence of the French actress Juliet Berto, a mix of fiction and documentary. We aim to describe, analyze and interpret the construction of identities, bringing to light sociopolitical discourses of modernity and its efemerity. Our hypothesis is that discourses in Claro link to an overlapping between verbal and visual materiality and these to memory in the constitution of sociopolitical identities. To achieve our goal, we investigated how subjects are designed from its construction by knowledge materialized in the film, we analyzed strategies of subjectivation in power exercise and relate subjectivities and identities to meaning production in discourses. We also question how subjects materialized in the film, marked by dispersion and moves, are woven by discursive wires network, which construct truths and rule identities. So, we consider contributions by: Foucault (2007a, 2007b) and Courtine (2008, 2009); cinema studies Xavier (2001, 2005); and identity studies Hall (2002, 2005), Bauman (2005), Gregolin (2008a), Fernandes (2009a, 2009b), Fernandes & Alves Jr. (2008) and Milanez (2009a, 2009b, 2010). We realize that Claro s complex materiality brings discourses in which subjects are constituted and sociopolitical identities are produced to evoke a memory of its own possibility conditions through words, images, sounds and discursive functioning of cinema s elements.