O cinema de Nelson Pereira dos Santos e Leon Hirszman na (re)leitura de Vidas secas e São Bernardo, de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

This thesis addresses the relationship between Cinema, Literature and History from the filmic adaptations of São Bernardo and Vidas Secas - literary Graciliano Ramos brought to the screen by filmmakers Hirszman Leon (1973) and Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1963), respectively. The writer and the filmmakers, through their aesthetic and political positions, sought to build their works through discussions that pointed to the projects, world views and ideals of non-hegemonic social categories, showing a Brazil multifaceted and heterogeneous. To realize these positions we try to capture its relations with the various proposals of realism and the left over the adaptation, production and reception of the books and movies, as each of the authors not only sought to build his criticism of propositions and policies of the hegemonic social categories, as advocated in his own way, aesthetic and political positions parallel, but not necessarily identical in seeking to represent Brazil.