Beyond difference: female participation in the Brazilian film revival of the 1990s

In this chapter, I will focus on the female participation in what became known as ‘The Retomada do Cinema Brasileiro’, or the Brazilian Film Revival, by thinking beyond differences of gender, class, age and ethnicity. I will first re-consider the Retomada phenomenon against the backdrop of its historical time, so as to evaluate whether the production boom of the period translated into a creative peak, and, if so, how much of this carried onto the present day. I will then look at the female participation in this phenomenon not just in terms of numerical growth of women film directors, admittedly impressive, but only partially reflective of the drastic changes in the modes of production and address effected by the neoliberal policies introduced in the country in the mid 1990s. I will argue that the most decisive contribution brought about by the rise of women in Brazilian filmmaking has been the spread of team work and shared authorship, as opposed to a mere aspiration to the auteur pantheon, as determined by a notoriously male-oriented tradition. Granted, films focusing on female victimisation were rife during the Retomada period and persist to this day, and they have been, and continue to be, invaluable for the understanding of women’s struggles in the country. However, rather than resorting to feminist readings of representational strategies in these films, I will draw attention to other, presentational aesthetic experiments, open to the documentary contingent and the unpredictable real, which, I argue, suspend the pedagogical character of representational narratives. In order to demonstrate that new theoretical tools are needed to understand the gender powers at play in contemporary world cinema, I will, to conclude, analyse an excerpt of the film, Delicate Crime (Crime delicado, Beto Brant, 2006), where team work comes out as a particularly effective female, and feminist, procedure.

Em busca do tempo partido: a consciência histórica e o MST

The work that follows is dedicated to the study of the historic time experience by the political militancy from our time. The political militant from the left-wing is the one that denies the state of current things, recovering a historic experience located far before its time and projecting a future beyond the incessant reproduction of the present relations. We chosen the Landless Workers Movement, not as study object, but as specific place where this consciousness is made and can be comprehended. The historic consciousness study of the landless militancy is, for us, the best starting point to understand the magnification of the historical time operated on the change of social relations lived inside an organization. The time division between before and after, as well as the history being understood as a progress isn t a natural given data, but a construction that obeys the contradictions of the present. It, therefore, must understand how the present lived by the militancy operates changes on the consciousness of time. From documents, reference books, formation notebooks and several materials produced by MST, we try to understand the way that the movement tells his history and lists with this wider experience of the struggle for the change of the current social order. Similarly, when we hear reports of history of several militants, we try to comprehend how this wider narrative re-orients the sight over history himself, over the experience of contradictions on before and after making the landless militant

Folha de São Paulo: o diário oficial do grande irmão

This project wants to analyze the newspaper like a collective organic intellectual thing, and its action like a conservator integral journalism, it makes it looks like a politics block. In this case, the newspaper inserts itself in a process to support the dominated fundamental class. In the same time, it searches to disqualify politically, using the news and the opinion, the sprouting of against-hegemony even untimely and distant in the historical time. Facing this proposal we take as study object the FOLHA DE S. PAULO, nowadays the most representative agency of the great conservative press. Our theoretical reference takes as base the Gramsci organic intellectual formularizations, hegemony, position´s war, integral journalism and private device of hegemony. We allow ourselves, in a subsidiary way to the Gramsci basement, using the novel 1984 written by George Orwell, as a method to explicit, in a comparative way, the manipulation of the reality by the newspaper in its activity of collective organic intellectual. The ideology is the heuristic connection point to make convergence between reality and fiction. For the intended evidences we develop analysis of the daily covering about two great accidents occurred in 2007: The landslide of part of the workmanships of the tunnel of the Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo-Metrô (line yellow 4). And the flying disaster involving the airbus of Transportes Aéreos Meridionais-TAM, flight 3054, also in that state. In the first accident we find endorsement of the newspaper to the São Paulo´s government, in the person of the politician actor José Serra (PSDB), representative of the conservative forces and responsible for the workmanships of the Subway, to who it tried to distance politically of the fact. In the second event, the opposition to the politician actor Luis Inácio Luis Lula da Silva and his politics block, the PT, as a possibility against-hegemonic contested, being the mentioned actor appointed as responsible for the occurrence. However, the newspaper says that it is independent and direct, and this direct action comes from the environment. In this environment, the diversity of conceptions of world would guide the publishing work, making the FOLHA DE S. PAULO to take it as a reference for the intended objective, hiding the politics block militancy

Cuidados paliativos e ser-para-morte: reflexões sobre um atendimento psicológico

Death is a theme that fascinates, though at the same time, frightens and uneasy the human being, despite the finitude being present at our daily lives. In each historical time, death has been represented in a peculiar way, from familiar death (at Middle Ages), to interdicted death (at contemporary times). Through this path it‟s possible to recognize several attitudes and stages front of death and the process of dying as possibilities of coping and the understanding of these occurrences. In other hand, the palliative care proposal came as a humanized attention, front of the human finitude, recognizing death as a part of the vital cycle. The Brazilian reality, in this context, still faces a lot of political, economic and social barriers that makes difficult the consolidation of palliative care at the death process in the Brazilian Health Care policies. Currently, according to the Brazilian Palliative Care Association, Brazil presents an average of 40 services with this proposal. Such data portray our inexpressive condition in relation to these cares when considering the territorial extension and population of our country. Considering this scenario is relevant think about death and the process of dying at contemporary times, at a health context in which palliative care, when trying to humanize the process of dying, bring to light the issue of human finitude and the beingtowards- death, as thought by the philosopher Martin Heidegger. According to him, the human being (Dasein) is constituted as a being-towards-death, once death is its most own potentiality-for-bein and its last possibility to be lived. In view of the ideas presented, the proposed study appears as a qualitative research of existential-phenomenological inspiration and aims to understand the experience of being-toward-death from the psychological care to a person out of possibilities of cure living on palliative cares. The psychological care happened at the patient‟s home, understanding the clinical process of being-with-the-other from the written reports of the psychology/researcher, by the accompanying sessions, configured as an experience report. These reports are focused on the experiences lived by the patient, as well as apprehended by the psychologist at the intersubjectivity relation and its own experience with Dasein and, therefore, being-toward-death. The reports were hermeneutically interpreted, from the senses that emerged in this process, considering the notion of being-toward-death proposed by Heidegger. Furthermore, it was important to dialogue with other authors that approached the studied theme. It is perceived, through brief and meaningful reflections about the clinical treatments started, that the experience of illness with no possibilities of cure makes the Dasein revises feelings and experiences that were marked at the temporality and historicity of existence. It is a stage of life in which the cultural dimension and the common sense of finitude, often gains ground in the human condition, taken in its ordinary sense, unlike the way it has been thought from an ontological and existential perspective of death. Thus, there are singulars and revealing paths in the palliative care scenery as possible ways for authenticity of being-toward-death

Statements on chaos control designs, including a fractional order dynamical system, applied to a MEMS comb-drive actuator

In this work, we deal with a micro electromechanical system (MEMS), represented by a micro-accelerometer. Through numerical simulations, it was found that for certain parameters, the system has a chaotic behavior. The chaotic behaviors in a fractional order are also studied numerically, by historical time and phase portraits, and the results are validated by the existence of positive maximal Lyapunov exponent. Three control strategies are used for controlling the trajectory of the system: State Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE) Control, Optimal Linear Feedback Control, and Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control. The controls proved effective in controlling the trajectory of the system studied and robust in the presence of parametric errors.

No rádio e nas telas: o rural da música sertaneja de sucesso e sua versão cinematográfica

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Perspectivas femininas em Helena Morley e Lygia Fagundes Telles: Minha vida de menina e As meninas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Trajetórias afetivo-sexuais entre jovens do ensino médio: implicações dos sentidos de amor e maternidade

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

O tempo sagrado do Império: história e religião na obra do Cônego Joaquim Caetano Fernandes Pinheiro

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Tempo e devir em convulsão: dimensões da história no cinema de Glauber Rocha (1964-1969)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

A longa duração e as estruturas temporais em Fernand Braudel: de sua tese O Mediterrâneo e o Mundo Mediterrânico na Época de Felipe II até o artigo História e Ciências Sociais : a longa duração (1949-1958)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Egressos de medicina no Pará

A partir da investigação dos egressos de medicina no Pará durante o século XX em periodização histórica que compreende, desde a criação da primeira escola médica até os dias atuais, considerando as variáveis: quantidade, gênero, idade, escolas formadoras, origem, tipo de exercício, atividades acadêmicas, políticas, culturais e cientificas, constroem-se os perfis dos egressos da primeira e segunda metade do século; reconhecendo as dimensões históricas e avaliando esses perfis encontrados, analisa-se a importância das universidades no contexto institucional enquanto órgãos formadores e responsáveis pela execução de uma política pública educacional para formar profissionais cujo perfil desejado desempenhe habilidades e competências capazes de atender à sociedade.

As formas do mito nos cantares amazônicos do poeta João de Jesus Paes Loureiro

Analisa os poemas da Trilogia Amazônica (Cantares Amazônicos) com o objetivo de apontar como o poeta aborda as formas do mito e como revive e recria um pouco da história da Amazônia. Os conceitos teórico-metodológicos que a permeiam são do próprio poeta, tais como conversão semiótica e epifania negativa, dentre outros. Utilizam-se, também, algumas obras que retratam a situação da Amazônia a partir dos anos 50, período da implantação do projeto de desenvolvimento para modernização da região. A leitura dos poemas se realiza à luz desse contexto histórico e cultural em que a chegada de novos capitais à região desestrutura as relações aí existentes. Como se deu esse processo? Quais as suas conseqüências para as populações autóctones e para a natureza, que virou espaço paradoxal de civilização e barbárie, produto de exploração e cobiça, perturbando o homem amazônico? Como se processa a passagem de uma mentalidade mítica a uma racionalidade, isto é, a deslenda mítica e a visão da cidade como um espaço de ruína: memória e esquecimento é desse trajeto, entre poesia e realidade, que o poeta colhe o material para sua escritura, convertendo a realidade como material estético, não para estetizar a miséria, mas como maneira de dar forma poética ao tempo histórico que cruza e é cruzado com o mito, ou as formas poéticas do mito.

A biblioteca vermelha de Raimundo Jinkings: uma história de livros

A história do livro e de leitores no Brasil ocupa a atenção de inúmeras pesquisas em todo o território nacional, cujos interesses abrangem os registros desde o Brasil Colônia até os nossos dias. Com essa perspectiva, este trabalho propõe um mergulho na biblioteca particular de Raimundo Jinkings, jornalista, dirigente sindical, militante comunista e livreiro, personagem de destaque na história política do Pará ao longo de quatro décadas, a partir dos anos 50. A pesquisa pretende contribuir para os estudos sobre a história do livro no Pará, à luz de pressupostos teóricos. Também vai identificar os rastros das leituras de um homem na sua vida como ativista político, comparando textos e apontando elementos que tornam indissociáveis o leitor e seus livros.

Buber e Weber em torno da política e da ética: o vértice da decisão valorativa como espaço para a dialogia

Weber, como perceberemos mais tarde, assumiu como desafio a tentativa de apontar um resgate para a possível corrosão da política na modernidade, pois em uma época histórica marcada pela percepção de empreendimento, constitui-se uma dificuldade fazer com que a política assuma a característica de vocação. Buber assumirá a importância para a compreensão de um viés para o agir oriundo de uma outra vertente interpretativa da política, distinta dos traços clássicos da modernidade ocidental, contribuindo decisivamente para a elaboração da decisão ética firmada em uma transcendência alicerçada na mística judaica e no humanismo hebraico. Quais seriam então as condições para a política assumir uma relação digna com a ética, em uma era marcada pela desvalorização de todos os valores? Ou em uma concepção Iluminista, como doar à política a possibilidade de retomar o princípio da emancipação dentro da própria eficácia, incorporando a necessidade do “responder ético” em relação à face do outro? Questões como as apontadas acima são os alicerces que motivaram esta pesquisa.