GIULIA SCHLIEPER TESSITORE

This work focuses on the cinematographic work of Glauber Rocha Black God, White Devil (1964) and its literature. From this perspective, it emerges that if for some researchers there is a clear representation of the Brazilian people in the work, for others, what is at stake is the exact opposite, the lack of a people. The intuition from the main problematizations studied here can be formalized in a central question that should be punctuated throughout the research: what is the people of Black God, White Devil? In order to answer this question, besides resuming the studies of Jean-Claude Bernardet, Ismail Xavier, Ivana Bentes and Gilles Deleuze, an attempt is made to develop a particular analysis of the film, using scenes description and cinematographic language. The main axes of the study are formalized in four chapters: bonds through belief and hope; aesthetics of hunger and the politically dimensioned technique; the revolutionary future of a missing people; and the impossibility of living in the intolerable.