Cinema e censura no Brasil: uma discussão conceitual para além da ditadura

Abstract

The article discusses the film censorship in Brazil during the civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985) and its modernization, emphasizing three aspects: a conceptual discussion on censorship, an analysis of the formation of a censorial culture before the coup, a study on the insertion of censorship in social organization and politics of that period. The text focuses on DCDP archive which contains over thirty thousand cases and administrative documents, in order to understand the reading keys put into action by the censors, the dealings with the bans and visuality that was intended to shape through classification, prohibition, hierarchy and release of film images.