Criticism and authorism - an Analysis of Making Cinema in Glauber and Godard

Abstract

The present essay verifies the contexts and the bases that made possible the appearance of a new kind of cinema, namely the French Nouvelle Vague and the Cinema Novo in Brazil. As a means for transformation the issue of film criticism appears as a fundamental piece, be it for the critical debate it generated, be it for its own critical nature. Thus, around the late 1950s new cinematographic conceptions are presented, due to a cultural effervescence, both in Brazil and in France. Such a period favored the aspirations of the main filmmakers taking part in that movement: Jean-Luc Godard and Glauber Rocha. The issues they were concerned with, as the notion of author, are investigated here together with the critical trend, as a means for identifying and delineating their cinematography.