História e literatura através do cinema

Abstract

The author proposes the disciplines of History and Literature to be narrated and understood through cinematographic language, which is capable of translating into images, in many histories and codes the inspiration to soothe or to transform the contradictions and confrontations into dialogues. Taking that into account, the author also suggests the movies Como era gostoso o meu francês and Memórias do Cárcere, by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, and Anchieta José do Brasil, by Paulo Cezar Saraceni, as examples. Having Literature as reference, these three motion pictures presente important periods of Brazilian History and Literature.