Glauber Rocha e a autonomia relativa do campo artístico

Abstract

The article discusses the ambiguity as a constituent element of the artistic field, whether in its relations with power or with the market. For this, we used as a starting point the making of the documentary “Amazonas, Amazonas” directed by filmmaker Glauber Rocha (1939-1981) commissioned by the government of Amazonas in the mid-1960s. Based on documentary sources and In conjunction with ideas by Karl Mannheim and Pierre Bourdieu, we analyze the tensions that emerge around this film, still little known in the face of the celebrated filmography of one of the exponents of the New Cinema movement.