Paulo Emilio and the silent cinema of Weimar inside the Film Culture Week 1959

Abstract

This project is intended to analyze the items Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes written as a complement to Film Culture Week 1959, held by the Brazilian Cinema. The work will focus on nine of his articles, published in the "Suplemento Literário" of the newspaper "O Estado de S. Paulo" on cinema produced in the Weimar Republic [1919-33]. From his essays, we must conduct the thematic approach [German silent film] works with the "LÉcran Demoniaque" Eisner's "From Caligari to Hitler", in Kracauer and methodological Bazin with the text "For a film impure: adaptation of Defense, "published in" Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? ". Such a comparison will be articulated to the character of his ideas about cinema and art in general, providing travel opportunities based on the heterogeneity of the analytics used to extend the impact of the artwork according to the conception of cinema as impure art, artistic expression, which according to Paulo Emilio is supported by the appropriation of all other arts to keep the force over time. In the year to articulate a particular set explanatory flirts with history, sociology, literature, theater, art, biographical information director, architecture and ideology, Paulo Emilio seems to offer us the key to his conception of how to understand the cinema Weimar Republic. (AU)