Cinema nacional: táticas para um tempo sem estratégias

Abstract

The author analyses the filmography that emerged in Brazil especially as of 1995, highlighting the variety in styles and themes. The diversity characterizes this production that is not concerned with proclaiming ruptures with previous production. It is possible to claim, according to the author, that this filmography guards certain thematic continuity with the past, working on different aesthetic keys. Movie directors have searched for, currently, the compositions of stories that have dialogue as a theme and that have more popular fiction: melodrama, the noir film, the slap-stick comedy, and the thriller. The author claims, furthermore, that this movie production has a dramaturgy that lives together the current picture of insecurity, including with the instability of its own survival due to uncertainties in the Country's cultural policy.