Abstract

SILVA-ESCOBAR, Juan Pablo. Modernity, Representation and Culture Notes for an Archeology of Brazilian Silent Films. Palabra Clave [online]. 2014, vol.17, n.1, pp.100-129. ISSN 0122-8285.

The objective of this study is to construct a historical and critical overview of Brazilian silent films and to examine their significant and meaningful relationship with modernity and Brazilian culture through a set of representations and discourses circulated by cinema on a mass scale. The author argues that silent films were the start of a social imaginary that helps to sustain the civilizing matrix of modernity; that is, industrialization, urban development, technology and rationalization.

Keywords : Brazilian cinema; modernity; representation; archeology.

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