Between Insults And Nationalisms: The documentary in the Brasilian cinematographic critic (1920-1950)

Abstract

This article was benefited by the digitalizing process of the Cinearte and the Scena Muda magazines by the Jenny Klabin Segall Library, which belongs to the Lasar Segall Museum, supported by Petrobrás, in order to map the brazilian cinematographic thought about the documentary and the non-fiction cinema in the decades of 1920’s to 1950’s. This work provided a view of how the non-fiction cinema found as much defenders as severe critics in Brazil and how curiously this cinematographic critic has acquired different approaches along the almost 30 years of magazines publication and circulation.