Suffering in Whitened Frames: Historical Films and Representations of Slavery in Rio de Janeiro during the First Republic (1907-1916)

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Varia Historia Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1590/0104-87752023000200015

Pedro Vinicius Asterito LAPERA

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Abstract The theme of this article is the encounter between some historical films that portrayed slavery in Classical Antiquity and Rio de Janeiro’s public scene during the First Republic, more precisely in the period between 1907 and 1916. Our main argument is that the consumption of such historical films contributed to the whitening of experiences of slavery in the common sense of carioca spectators of the time. The circulation of such productions thus fostered an erasure of the traumatic experiences that slavery represented for Afro-Brazilian populations. Our sources are the films A Slave’s Love and The Slave, available in online databases of the Library of Congress and Cinémathèque Française, as well as advertisements published by several newspapers concomitantly to their exhibitions and collected in the Hemeroteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional. In our conclusion, we emphasize how the narratives of the films used procedures related to the massive genre of melodrama and, in their consumption, obscured some references that were closer to carioca spectators’ experiences of slavery in Brazil.

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白化框架中的苦难:第一共和国时期里约热内卢奴隶制的历史电影和表现(1907-1916)

本文的主题是一些描绘古代奴隶制的历史电影与第一共和国时期，更确切地说是1907年至1916年期间里约热内卢的公共场景之间的相遇。我们的主要论点是，这些历史电影的消费有助于在当时的卡里奥卡观众的常识中漂白奴隶制的经历。因此，这些作品的流通促进了对奴隶制对巴西黑人人口所代表的创伤经历的抹去。我们的资料来源是电影《奴隶的爱》和《奴隶》，这两部电影可在美国国会图书馆和法国档案系统》的网上资料库中找到，以及几家报纸在展览时刊登的广告，这些广告也被收藏在国家图书馆中。在我们的结论中，我们强调电影的叙事是如何使用与情节剧的大规模类型相关的程序的，并且在它们的消费中，模糊了一些更接近里约热内卢观众在巴西奴隶制经历的参考资料。

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Varia Historia Arts and Humanities-History

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期刊介绍： Varia Historia was founded in 1985, formerly as Revista do Departamento de História, da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. In 1993, after consolidating its importance in Brazilian academic circles, the journal launched a new era looking forward to broaden its audience and improving its quality, with a new title. Varia Historia is a Latin expression by which we wish to affirm our journal as a vehicle for the diversity and the variety of contemporary historiography.