Melodrama e nação no cinema brasileiro dos anos 1940

Abstract

I wanna to realize an approach about brazilian film production linked with Estado Novo values. The movies are the feature films Birds without Nest (1939) by Raul Roulien, Clay (1940) by Humberto Mauro and Forbidden Romance (1944) by Adhemar Gonzaga. My key matter is to show the easy or difficult relations of those ideological values with the melodramatic structure of its dramaturgy. I use, above all, of the filmic analyses methodology. However, it was important a bibliographical survey under the historical moment and the conceptions of nation and melodrama used. I discovered, in many points, that some constructions of the nation as immagined community, were opposed of the subtitles that could be note on the narratives, specially in some matters like social classes relations and ethnics and gender representations. In respect the last theme, some important matters could be observed in that movies, all of them with women in the main roles.