When women film: history of Brazilian cinema genre in the years of military dictatorship

Abstract

At the turn of the 1970s, Brazilian society has lived one of the most difficult periods of civil-military dictatorship imposed in 1964. If during the previous decade, Brazilian filmmakers were still the hope of a change in society through a film engaged, the coup and the difficulties imposed by dictatorial censorship led them to carry out an allegorical film, baroque and “disenchanted”. On the other hand, if women, during the years 1960, were absent in the direction in Brazilian film scene, from the year 1970, they directed several films, highlighting the issues of subjectivity and the female body, also questioning the family and patriarchal authoritarianism. This article proposes an analysis of three films directed during this period that puts the emphasis on the work of three directors Brazilian : Os homens que eu tive de Teresa Trautman (1973), Mar de Rosas de Ana Carolina (1977) e Patriamada de Tizuka Yamazaki (1984). In addition to the complexities and sociopolitical issues of the period studied, analyzes of these three films can help us understand a little the process of transforming representations of gender, and also several changes that point to work on the aesthetic plane which is part of the history of Brazilian cinema.