The staging of the gaze in the cinema of Nouvelle Vague

Authors

  • Luis Henrique Boaventura Universidade de Passo Fundo
  • Ernani Cesar de Freitas Universidade de Passo Fundo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2014.1.14356

Keywords:

Enunciation, cinema, Nouvelle Vague

Abstract

In the mid-50s classic American cinema went into crisis, while in France appeared the Nouvelle Vague film movement led by young directors and former critics of Cahiers du Cinéma. Names like Godard and François Truffaut promoted the so-called “policy of authors”, who advocated the inclusion of film director in the pantheon of individual-artists, like painters and writers. This paper addresses the veiled discourse defense of this policy through the films of the Nouvelle Vague, which articulated the presence of its director as an artist behind the work. This speech was defended by the gaze turned to the camera, a gaze which questions and challenges the viewer. Our goal is to investigate the discursive practices that showed this trend in French cinema of the time to reassert itself as art and as a product of the individualism of someone who could be called, as it occurred in the other arts, the “author”.

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Author Biographies

Luis Henrique Boaventura, Universidade de Passo Fundo

Mestre em Letras pela Universidade de Passo Fundo.

Ernani Cesar de Freitas, Universidade de Passo Fundo

Doutor em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS, com pós-doutorado em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem pela Pontifícia Universidade de São Paulo – PUCSP; pesquisador nas áreas Linguagem e Trabalho, Semântica Argumentativa, Semiolinguística; professor do Mestrado em Letras da Universidade de Passo Fundo – UPF; professor do Mestrado em Processos e Manifestações Culturais da Universidade Feevale, Novo Hamburgo.

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Published

2014-06-03

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Boaventura, L. H., & Freitas, E. C. de. (2014). The staging of the gaze in the cinema of Nouvelle Vague. Revista FAMECOS, 21(1), 308–328. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2014.1.14356

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2014)

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Movie

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