Dispositivos interacionais: um estudo sobre os documentários de Eduardo Coutinho

Abstract

This dissertation develops a study of communication about five films for director and documentarian Eduardo Coutinho. The films were analyzed from the perspective of communication, understood as an action that generates interaction. The analyzes produced films about the Cabra Marcado para Morrer, Boca de Lixo, Santo Forte, Peões and O Fim e o Princípio left the initial perception of Eduardo Coutinho operates an indiciary processivity in the direction of the films that have the potential to reveal the social reality, cultural and political life of the people he interviews. To get the idea that documentaries can be analyzed as interactional devices, the survey began with the observation of the centrality of communication processes in the films, the interaction between them, supported and funded in the films by a logic that is very specific pessoalização. This logic appears in various ways during the film and was captured after a systematic study and cross the most significant scenes from the movies. The director evidentiary process can be characterized as a process that seeks the simple details of the interviewee, revealing clues to what he thinks about life and about social reality. Thus, the director seeks to reveal the social reality of the characters from simple questions that are intended to highlight the person and his life story. Finall, we conclude that the communication processes are caught up in the movies and are generating interaction.