Mostras retrospectivas: A crítica publicada nos catálogos e a reconstrução de uma memória histórica do “cinema brasileiro”

Abstract

After the first half of this decade, it was possible to see, especially in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, a consistent movement of critic revision of Brazilian cinema through the promotion of retrospective exhibitions and the publication of "catalogue-books" which suggest new approaches to the comprehension of several moments and aspects of the cinema made in Brazil. This article intends to analyze the role of the reviews published in those products as the mediators of a new reception to movies and as a space of legitimating and of cultural authority dispute in order to renew modern criticism tradition consolidated analysis and classification parameters, based on notions as "nation" and "authorship". Thus, the construction of new political and aesthetic canons, as well as the defense of popular genre cinema can be observed.