Banca de DEFESA: GUILHERME SANTOS DE ARAÚJO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : GUILHERME SANTOS DE ARAÚJO
DATE: 24/01/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-k0dtitDVsMUhJXOAyiqizf5ojy7OXCv/view?usp=sharing
TITLE:

JAMES BALDWIN AND RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE
MOVIE I AM NOT YOUR BLACK (2017)

KEY WORDS:

James Baldwin; Racism; Black Cinema; United States

PAGES: 117
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUMMARY:

This research work aims to analyze Raoul Peck's 2017 feature-film, I Am Not Your Negro,
investigating the resources that the film uses to elaborate its argument on racism in the United
States of America. In this way, at the beginning of this Master Thesis some information about
who the filmmaker Raoul Peck is, his filmography, and the writer James Baldwin, who is the
main character of the film (once the film uses his writing and vision on the subject). In the
course of this work, a discussion is conducted about cinema as an art and how much it was/is
influenced by political processes, especially those that are structured from colonialism and
racial slavery, directing the focus to Black American Cinema. It also aims to discuss what
documentary film is, as well as to involve into the more specific analysis of the film I Am Not
Your Negro (2017), commenting on scenes through the analysis of shots, editing, soundtrack
etc., in order to highlight criticism made in the film regarding to the stereotyped representations
that the black population undergoes in mainstream cinema and beyond. To substantiate this
work, an overview of the American racial context is made, in dialogue with the historical
references brought in the cinematographic work itself. This work uses authors from the Human
Sciences field to support the discussions, but it also uses other films as a source that reinforces
the discussion on the subject of this work, and are also important sources of knowledge.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interno - 1525270 - DIEGO FERREIRA MARQUES
Interno - 3425757 - JESIEL FERREIRA DE OLIVEIRA FILHO
Externo à Instituição - ALEX SANTANA FRANCA - UEFS