Sangue nos olhos : uma análise da constituição evenemencial na circulação de imagens de linchamento no Brasil entre os séculos XIX e XXI

Abstract

The general objective of this work is to study the process of evenemential composition in the circulation of pictures of lynchings produced in Brazil, by both journalists and non-journalists, during the 19th and 21st centuries. A comparative analysis of visual narratives on lynchings in Brazil through different time periods and media is also intended, as well as an investigation on how meanings are produced in the circulation of Brazilian lynching images in different media supports, both journalistic and non-journalistic. The questions that leverage this research are: how the visual records of lynchings in Brazil — from the 1880s to the present day — become events; what agents have participated in the circulation of these images; and which meanings are produced, considering the different media supports and time periods. For this purpose, lynching images (prints, photographs, videos) and written and sound texts published together with them, from 1888 to 2017, in newspapers, magazines and books, printed and digital, websites, digital social media and blogs, in the form of 11 videos and 784 articles, news, interviews, prints, posts, commercial advertisements, comments from internet users, and academic works, were analyzed. As a methodological strategy, praxeological and comparative approaches were followed, and a technique based on analysis of the individualization of the event, combined with documentary and bibliographical research. This research was carried out using as theoretical assumptions certain concepts and problematization ideas derived from the theories of event, in dialogue with discussions on mediatization processes.