JAILSON RAMOS DE OLIVEIRA JUNIOR

The working hypothesis of this thesis project concerns the current criticism of Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes. It involves recovering the concepts of occupants and occupied, contextualizing them within the author's work and the debates of that time to determine their meaning with greater precision. Such ideas describe both a social and political ideological situation, referring, therefore, at the same time to the social structure of Brazilian cinema and the works that are produced and consumed in it. One of the basic premises is that, except for formal changes and certain political agents, the social structure and the central problem on which the author's criticism was based remain present, namely, the situation of economic dependence that promotes the state of underdevelopment and the massive presence of foreign films that occupy the market. At first, then, the concepts still seem to have descriptive power. It remains to be seen whether they continue to have critical-analytical validity in approaching the works that are consumed in Brazilian cinemas. To verify, we'll carry out an investigation into a set of contemporary films taking the concepts of occupants and occupied as a reference