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History and Space; Kleber Mendonça Filho; Cinema Pernambucano; Building Films.
This research investigates the relationships between space, cinema and memory. The problem that mobilized it consists of analyzing how urban spaces were appropriated in the cinema of the director from Pernambuco, Kleber Mendonça Filho, especially in the films Enjaulado (1997) and Aquarius (2016). The main object, therefore, is the cinematographic forms produced from the process of verticalization in the city of Recife/PE, since the transformation of the urban space of Recife involves urban verticalization, over the course of the last decades, contemplated by the selected films. A contextualization of Mendonça's work was carried out in the recent national cinematographic production, in general, and in Pernambuco, in particular, as well as the recent urban changes in contemporary Brazil, especially gentrification and verticalization. The theoretical framework articulated the historical narratology of David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson for film analysis, the spatial theories of Yi-Fu Tuan, Michel de Certeau and Steven Milles; studies of historical memory by Pierre Nora and Aleida Assmann.