Abstract
Neste artigo discutem-se as formas pelas quais a imprensa escrita, especialmente a revista Veja, deu visibilidade ao tema do erotismo na cultura brasileira de meados dos anos 1980. Em tempo de suspensão da censura estatal, a revista expunha reportagens sobre o erotismo nas produções culturais, com ambiguidades. O tema transbordava para o debate sobre a abertura e, longe de oportunizar o trato explícito sobre o erotismo, a revista expunha argumentos baseados em cartas de leitores e outros setores em defesa dos benefícios da censura sobre alguns produtos polêmicos. Argumento que as opiniões sobre o erotismo em produções culturais têm relação direta com o debate sobre a redemocratização, a censura e a liberdade de expressão no Brasil, que marcava nessas produções a oportunidade e as tensões na busca por limites decorrentes do fim da censura com o processo de redemocratização.
Highlights
ABSTR ACT This article discusses the ways in which the press, especially the Brazilian magazine Veja, foregrounded the issue of eroticism in the Brazilian culture of the mid-1980s
Eroticism spilled over the Brazilian political opening process, and, far from promoting explicit debate on eroticism, Veja developed arguments based on readers’ letters and other sectors in defense of the benefits of censorship on some controversial cultural products
I argue that the views on eroticism in cultural production are directly related to the debate on democratization, censorship and freedom of speech in Brazil, where such productions constituted an opportunity to approach these issues, as they described tensions in the search for the new limits, once the ones established by censorship had ended
Summary
RESUMO Neste artigo discutem-se as formas pelas quais a imprensa escrita, especialmente a revista Veja, deu visibilidade ao tema do erotismo na cultura brasileira de meados dos anos 1980. O tema transbordava para o debate sobre a abertura e, longe de oportunizar o trato explícito sobre o erotismo, a revista expunha argumentos baseados em cartas de leitores e outros setores em defesa dos benefícios da censura sobre alguns produtos polêmicos. ABSTR ACT This article discusses the ways in which the press, especially the Brazilian magazine Veja, foregrounded the issue of eroticism in the Brazilian culture of the mid-1980s. With the end of state censorship, the magazine reports showed ambiguities on eroticism in cultural productions. I argue that the views on eroticism in cultural production are directly related to the debate on democratization, censorship and freedom of speech in Brazil, where such productions constituted an opportunity to approach these issues, as they described tensions in the search for the new limits, once the ones established by censorship had ended.
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