Saudade in Brazilian Cinema

The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia, which brings together love and grief, a melancholia and a longing focused on a memory, an absence. Saudade in Brazilian Cinema looks specifically at how this emotion is imagined on the screen. Analyzing over sixty years of Brazilian cinema, Jack A. Draper III uses the idea of saudade to create an analytical framework within the field of emotion studies. Draper places insights on saudade on screen in dialogue with theoretical studies of emotion and affect as well as film theory. The result is a new way of understanding saudade and the representation of emotion in twentieth and twenty-first century Brazilian cinema.

Auteur

Dr. Draper is continuing his work on a long-range research project analyzing Brazilian representations of saudade (a Portuguese word for a structure of feeling combining love, remembrance, and grief). This project explores the intellectual history developed around saudade from medieval Portugal to present-day Brazil, and utilizes a critical look at this history to contextualize and analyze the ideology and psychology of saudade in the elite and popular literary, musical and filmic production of Brazil in the 20th and 21st centuries. The project also frames the study of saudade within the literature of the emergent interdisciplinary field of emotion studies / affect theory.

Contenu

Introduction - Rethinking Saudade and Cinema
Jack A. Draper III Traditional Agrarian Saudade and the Rancho Alegre and Vera Cruz Studios
Jack A. Draper III 1960s Brazilian Cinema and Narratives of Rural-Urban Migration
Jack A. Draper III Cinematic Visions of Brazilian TV on the Road and in the Clouds
Jack A. Draper III The Ghost of Home in Brazilian Cinema of the 1990s
Jack A. Draper III Transnational and Postnational Emotional Vectors in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
Jack A. Draper III Haptic and Optical Cinematic Approaches to Childhood Memories
Jack A. Draper III Conclusion - The Waxing and Waning of Saudade in Cinematic Skies
Jack A. Draper III