Do centro popular de cultura ao cinema documentário: Eduardo Coutinho e o ser periférico na história (1962-1992).

Abstract

This research is focused on the filmography of documentary cinema and the path of Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho, and, the trajectory that extends from the Popular Center of Culture to professional rise in the field of documentary cinema in the decade of 1980, and at this phase we emphasize the social dimension of his films, in what we understand to be the relationship of the filmmaker's nonfiction films with people socially marginalized, pointing out structural changes in the filmic language of his productions. In this sense, the research scales the political and social tensions that permeate the field of cultural artistic production during the civil-military dictatorship, relating the divergences of the artistic class in the period, and, as these were institutions of support of the regime, such as Rede Globo de Televisão, in the period of consolidation of the Cultural Industry in the country, the result of modernization starting with the Coup d'Éta. The issues of the period reverberate in the life of the filmmaker and are fundamental to understand a trajectory that would impact the field of documentary production. Furthermore, we will start from the trajectory of Eduardo Coutinho to understand the political tensions in the cultural field and analyze three works, Cabra Marcado para Morrer (1984), Santa Marta – Duas Semanas no Morro (1987) and Boca de Lixo (1992), which point out transformations in the director's cinematography and show the social field of his nonfiction films.