Banca de DEFESA: MORGANA GAMA DE LIMA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : MORGANA GAMA DE LIMA
DATA : 30/07/2020
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Defesa on-line (videoconferência)
TÍTULO:

Modern griots: a comprehension about allegorie’s usages like rethorical resource in African film

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

African cinemas; narratives; oral tradition; allegories.

PÁGINAS: 373
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
ÁREA: Comunicação
RESUMO:

Among images, stories and memories, there are many ways to narrate African cinemas and “narrate” their narratives. Taking as a starting point the complex and multiple scenario of films made by African filmmakers, our thesis looks at the narratives from these films approaching how the use of allegorical constructions, as a legacy of oral narratives in cinema, would be configured as a rhetorical strategy in context of cinematographic narrative. Going beyond the concept of allegory as a figure of speech, our proposal is understand how its composition within the narrative can mobilize new arrangements of meaning trough chain of events and how it functions as a rhetorical resource, by promoting the articulation between different temporalities and historicities from narrative. As a way of demonstrating the influence of allegory in the context of cinematographic narrative, three films realized by African filmmakers from different countries and generations will be considered, because their narratives bring allegorical constructions for at least two aspects: the perception of a crisis’s scenario 

(like identity crisis, artistic crisis or political crisis) and the intermingling of personal memories and collective memories as a subsidy for the construction of the film narrative. By associating such aspects, the selected films are: Soleil Ô (Med Hondo, Mauritania, 1967), Aristotle’s plot (Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Cameroon, 1996) and República di mininus (Flora Gomes, Guinea-Bissau, 2012). Based on this corpus and, in addition to such similarities between films, our objective with this thesis is observe the extent to which the presence of allegories in films made by African filmmakers can be considered as an update of oral traditions in cinema. An update that does not necessarily occur in terms of adaptation of african tales from oral traditions, but due a kind of mimicry of narrative gestures employed by the griot, especially the use of certain strategies common to narratives of oral tradition (presentification, repetition, digression and inversion) and that contribute to the composition of the allegory in the film narrative. Thus, at the time when we recognize allegory as a possible legacy of oral traditions in film narratives made by African filmmakers, we also admit that its occurrence is not an intrinsic property of the film narrative, but emerges from the relationship between film and viewer. Therefore, based on the semio-pragmatic model of film analysis (ODIN, 2000), we start from the hypothesis that the use of such strategies, by evidencing the mediation operated by the narrative, mobilizes the viewer to produce a specific way of film’s reading (allegorizing reading). It is from this relationship that the idea of narrative allegory arises, a concept that seeks to think allegory as a structuring agent of the narrative, offering to spectators new perspectives on how we relate with experiences of time (past, present and future) (GAGNEBIN, 1999) through the narrative. Starting from discussions (theoretical narratives) around film narratives carried out in the African continent and going through the narrative legacies of the oral tradition, we hope to finally offer an analytical alternative to this universe of films by valuing their narrative arrangements and, broader, contribute to studies in cinematographic narrative and discourse.

 

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1690228 - JOSE FRANCISCO SERAFIM
Externo à Instituição - LÚCIA RAMOS MONTEIRO - UFF
Externo ao Programa - 2392620 - MARCELO RODRIGUES SOUZA RIBEIRO
Externo à Instituição - PAULO MANUEL FERREIRA DA CUNHA
Interno - 184.373.988-78 - SANDRA STRACCIALANO COELHO - UFBA