Cinejornalismo em perspectiva histórica

Abstract

The relation between Cinema and History promoted a double advance in the historiographic field. With an extensive variety of productions, it allowed analyzes of primary sources or new objects of study. Moreover, research in audiovisual collections also contributes to the constitution of an interface between Cultural and Political History. Thus, the central objective of this article is to analyze the political uses of newsreels in Brazil from a historical perspective. Forming the first vehicle for audiovisual information, cinejournalism revolutionized the media. However, as it became more popular, it also became an important tool of political propaganda. Even so, it constitutes a theme still little explored by historiography. For this reason, this article consists of a reunion of the main historiographical productions that used this object as a source of analysis.