Criança, cinema e educação: os discursos sobre a infância em produções cinematográficas brasileiras

This study aims to analyze discourses about childhood and the child’s protagonists in the movies Menino de Engenho (Brazil, 1966, Walter Lima Jr.), O Meu pé de Laranja Lima (Brazil, 1970, Aurélio Teixeira) and, Capitães da Areia (Brazil, 2011, Célia Amado), in whose center of the problem lies in the fact of how the childhood and the child’s cultural practices has been presented in these films productions e the relations stablish with conceptions instituted in society. The movies are a cultural system, once that’s possible, by the multiple voices caught in the film, the interaction between individual consciences, for having ideological form and content that is processed from specific fields and in multiple discourses, to be observed, within the process of communication, as signs. Further than that, it demarcates its field as a rich and propitious source for the historian and other researches, because it’s capable not only of telling a story, but of problematizing reality, which ensures its merit as a childhood’s research field. Thus, the following specific objectives were defined for this study: 1) to unveil the present and/or absents discourses that can point the possible senses and the meaning of childhood (re)produced in the selected films; 2) to problematize about the conceptions of childhood present in our society and that are re-treated in the investigated films; 3) to reflect about the aspects related to education and the ways of being a child present in the films studied. In order to do so, this study follows the descriptive and analytical study’s lines, with a qualitative approach, using bibliographical and documentary research, with dialogues anchored in the Bakhtin studies and authors from the childhood and history’s fields in a sociological, historical and cultural perspective. Our analyses were guided, from three areas: Conceptions of childhood, Cultures for children and Education. From these, it was possible to perceive the strong influence of conceptions, social practices and educational aspects ...