La Vague du Cinema Novo en France fut-elle une invention de la critique ?

The cinema novo wave in france : a creation by the critics ?

• Auteur / Autrice : Alexandre Figueirôa Ferreira
• Direction : Jacques Aumont
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Etudes Cinématographiques
• Date : Soutenance en 1999
• Etablissement(s) : Paris 3

Mots clés

Mots clés contrôlés

˜O œDragao da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro -- film

Terra em transe -- film

˜O œDesafio -- film

Ganga Zumba -- film

˜Os œFuzis -- film

Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol -- film

Vidas Secas -- film

Cinema novo

Critique cinématographique

1960-1990

France

Cinéma brésilien

Mots clés libres

Cinema novo (cinema)

Résumé

Dans les annees 60 le cinema novo bresilien a occupe en france une place particuliere parmi les nouveaux cinemas. Cela fut rendu possible par la promotion de ce mouvement accomplie par certains critiques des revues cinematographiques specialisees. Les revues rendirent possible l'attribution d'une valeur culturelle aux oeuvres du cinema novo, permettant ainsi sa reconnaissance en tant qu'invention d'une conception originale du cinema. Les interpretations du cinema novo ont ete reperees a travers les textes parus dans les revues. L'orientation du travail est surtout historique et socioculturelle. On y esquisse une methode pour rendre compte des particularites des situations de communication etudiees sans pour autant engager une etude des medias ou une etude semiolinguistique (bien qu'on utilise certaines procedures relevant de ces disciplines). Ce travail demontre d'abord comment la circulation des idees a permis la conception d'un modele culturel pour le cinema novo. Ce modele fut elabore a partir d'une recherche de significations communes, suggerant une correspondance des codes entre les cultures francaise et bresilienne, et il fut legitime a partir des accords ideologiques prealables etablis entre les partenaires de ce processus. On demontre ensuite que le cinema novo, pour etre convaincant comme modele de cinema social et politique convenant aux besoins de la critique francaise et aux strategies promotionnelles qu'elle convoque, jouait des roles determines par les a priori redactionnels des revues, roles dont le principal fut celui de substitut du neorealisme italien et de la nouvelle vague francaise.

In the 1960s, as a result of the promotional movement carried out by critics writing for specialised cinema periodicals, the brazilian cinema novo held a privileged position among the new cinemas. Those periodicals provided the means through which the cinema novo films were given their particular cultural value. As a consequence, this body of films gained recognition as a movement that created an innovative conception of film-making. The interpretations of the cinema novo propounded were elaborated form the observation of the discursive reality perceptible in the periodicals. The approach given to the present work is mostly a historical and socio-cultural one. An analytical method has been draw up in order to account for the particularities of the communication categories examined. However it is neither a media or a semiological and linguistic study, even though both these domains have provided useful techniques. Firstly, this study shows how the spread of ideas produced a cultural model for the cinema novo based on the research of signs common to both the french and the brazilian cultures, so that a pattern off corresponding codes uniting these two cultures could be set. The legitimacy of this cultural model was to be found in ideological agreements previously established between the parties involved in the process. Then, we show that in order to meet the needs of the specialised french critics, who searched for a convincing model of social and political cinema, and those of their promotional strategies, the cinema novo had to fit in the roles determined by editorial tenets upheld in the periodicals. Thus, the main role the cinema novo had to play was that of a replacement for the italian neorealism and for the french new wave.