Cinema and History: Narrative Adventures
No. 84 MAY 2018
As Manoel de Oliveira said, cinema does not exist: it builds, establishes and tells individual and collective stories. In the post-Big Brother era of immediacy and instant gratification, we forget that reality is now shown live: the History of the World and of Man has been made up of the art of storytelling for millennia. In an incursion that began with the Lumière brothers and continued throughout the 20th century, this is an essay on an instrument that tells our stories and allows us to be part of the reality of the people and places filmed. This is a journey that brings us all together in the same time machine and in the desire that cinema creates and makes real: wanting to go back home when they tell us what is real.
As Manoel de Oliveira said, cinema does not exist: it builds, establishes and tells individual and collective stories. In the post-Big Brother era of immediacy and instant gratification, we forget that reality is now shown live: the History of the World and of Man has been made up of the art of storytelling for millennia. In an incursion that began with the Lumière brothers and continued throughout the 20th century, this is an essay on an instrument that tells our stories and allows us to be part of the reality of the people and places filmed. This is a journey that brings us all together in the same time machine and in the desire that cinema creates and makes real: wanting to go back home when they tell us what is real.
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Dimensions
6 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-8863-72-0
Book available only in Portuguese
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