A representação dos negros no cinema brasileiro: uma olhar sobre a obra fílmica “Xica da Silva” (1976).

Abstract

Methodologically, audiovisual resources has gained more and more space in academic spaces, an important ally for the construction of knowledge historiography, especially after the emergence of new paradigms coming from the Annales school. It was from the studies effected by the French historian Marc Ferro that film before had with suspicion by historians, was gradually accepted and used as an object of study. Thus, this work aims to carry out a study on the representations of blacks in Brazilian cinema from the film work "Xica da Silva" production undertaken in 1976 by director Carlos Diegues. The film takes up the time of slavery Brazil, specifically the mining company of Diamantina, in the eighteenth century, home to the black slave who names the film, endowed with a beauty that draws the attention of the representative of the Portuguese crown, which passionately up for it and goes on to meet all your wishes. We seek to verify the approaches found and produced in the script involving especially the blacks of place in the two historical times: at the present time where the work is produced (1976) and the time represented in the production (eighteenth century). As a theoretical framework, we analyzed the studies effected by Marc Ferro and José de Assunção Barros, to spite the relationship Cinema and History, as well as productions that address the Brazilian cinema and the participation of blacks in national productions from the understanding of film as narrative therefore representation, a concept contemplated in the studies of Roger Chartier.