Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MIRELLA LOPES DE AQUINO

The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff narrated by cinema

Media Studies, Impeachment, Dilma Rousseff, Cinema

The period surrounding the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff (PT) was one of intense political and social unrest in Brazil. The articulated movement for its withdrawal represented a whole change of government platform with cuts in public investment in education, health and social policies, in addition to the reduction of labor rights, weakening the most needy population. A process that took place with the active participation of the corporate press, also called the mainstream press due to its high economic power, in addition to different economic sectors, such as industry and financial institutions. In addition to what was recorded by the major newspapers, whether printed, televised, transmitted via radio or internet, the moment caught the attention of a number of documentary filmmakers who, in turn, mobilized to record this historical period, still recent and in unfolding. Thus, in this dissertation, we will make a narrative and filmic analysis of the documentaries O Processo (2018); The Wall (2018), Your Excellencies (2018); Vertigem Democracy (2019) and Our Flag Never Will Be Red (2019), in order to situate these productions in terms of their narrative strategies in the affective mobilization of the spectator public since, as an artistic and documentary expression, the documentary carries in itself the issues of their time, as pointed out by researchers Piero Sbragia, Bill Nichols and Francis Vanoye and Anne Goliot-Lété.