Banca de DEFESA: CESAR DE SIQUEIRA CASTANHA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : CESAR DE SIQUEIRA CASTANHA
DATE: 08/03/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Sala do Conselho Departamental do Centro de Artes e Comunicação
TITLE:

Landscapes in a multiverse: claims of place by audiovisual fiction

KEY WORDS:

Visual culture. Scenic space. Landscape. Intermediality. Comparative cinema. Filmic genres.

PAGES: 248
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

This thesis researches the claims of place made by audiovisual fiction. This is done in order to understand the formulations of the scenic space in the audiovisual, its sense and its sensibility. In its introduction, the thesis begins by indicating the sensibilities that motivated the research, locating the author as an involved spectator, interested in building a flow of audiovisuality from generic audiovisual works that present spaces using creative and technological artifices. The chapter “The articulations and unfoldings of space in audiovisual fiction:  andscapes in multiverse and the fictions of place” proposes a methodology of the multiverse as a way of organizing the audiovisual appearances of fictional spaces for analysis. The chapter also defends an intermedial
approach such an analysis. This is done both with the purpose of opening the investigation beyond the specificity of cinema (hence the preference for the term “audiovisual”) and of acknowledging creative and performative gestures that are associated with other forms of art and media. In the same chapter, the thesis defines the theoretical concepts of space, place and landscape, but defends the presentation of space
in audiovisuality as fulfilling – simultaneously and often indistinctly – the senses implied by all these concepts. The thesis is, therefore, more interested in the presentation of space, place and landscape through the staging and the framing of audiovisual fiction, which serves to perceive an instability in the identification of the scenic space. Such an instability demands a revision of the expectations for indexicality in filmic spaces. The  problematic nature of indexicality when related to filmic spaces is discussed throughout the thesis. After establishing these theoretical, conceptual and methodological foundations, the thesis continues with three chapters that organize, each one of them, a specific multiverse from consolidated genres of audiovisual fiction for analysis. The chapter “The stage in the musical” investigates the insertion of new fictional spaces within the already fictional audiovisual representation of the stage in the musical genre. The chapter “Melodrama, interiors in crisis” the genre of melodrama is approached as a global phenomenon that mobilizes different relationships between interiority and exteriority, which relates to excessive gestures and rigorous formal interventions in the scenic space. Finally, the chapter “The outline of unknown spaces” investigates the western desert, animated film and television and the extraterrestrial space of science fiction as spaces beyond the frontier. Those spaces, as they are perceived, radically problematize the distinctions placed between space, place and landscape in the audiovisual.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1134091 - ANGELA FREIRE PRYSTHON
Interno - 2322090 - THIAGO SOARES
Externo à Instituição - FÁBIO ALLAN MENDES RAMALHO
Externa à Instituição - GABRIELA MACHADO RAMOS DE ALMEIDA
Externa à Instituição - MARIANA BALTAR FREIRE