Abstract
Literature and cinema have always kept open boundaries that separate them, cultivating, throughout their histories, the semiotic exercise. Considering this perspective of mutual influence, this essay examines the construction of filmic narrative in the documentary by Eduardo Coutinho and raises questions that are also relevant to the scope of the theory of literature. Although the documentary has, in its most common sense, the character of objectivity, the work of Coutinho subverts this perspective and brings out the subjectivity. The filmmaker is very sensitive to the fact that something in front of a camera is no longer something in itself anymore. When something is before a camera, before another one, it is language; it is a representation of something. In Coutinho, the construction of the reality is shown as a fictional construction. This brings us closer to the literary narrative construction, and also to the conception of the subject in Psychoanalysis, whose constitution is given by the language and in the language as a structure of fiction.
Highlights
Resumo: A literatura e o cinema sempre mantiveram abertas as fronteiras que os separam, cultivando, ao longo de suas histórias, o exercício semiótico
this essay examines the construction of filmic narrative in the documentary
raises questions that are relevant to the scope of the theory
Summary
Resumo: A literatura e o cinema sempre mantiveram abertas as fronteiras que os separam, cultivando, ao longo de suas histórias, o exercício semiótico. Considerando essa perspectiva de influência mútua, este ensaio analisa a construção da narrativa fílmica no documentário de Eduardo Coutinho e levanta questões que também são pertinentes ao âmbito da teoria da literatura. Em sua acepção mais comum, o caráter de objetividade, o trabalho de Coutinho subverte essa perspectiva e faz emergir desse gênero a subjetividade. Isso nos aproxima da construção narrativa literária e, também, de uma noção de sujeito da Psicanálise, cuja constituição se dá pela linguagem e na linguagem e a partir de uma estrutura de ficção.
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