O Anjo maldito: o cinema popular de Antônio Calmon durante a ditadura militar brasileira 1969-1981

Abstract

The research presented aims to investigate how the cinema produced by director Antônio Calmon during the Brazilian military dictatorship dialogued with the context and social experience lived at the time. For this we selected erotic comedies that over time were called pornochanchadas, as well as other feature films, made by the director, which were influenced by this way of making films. Above all, we will try to investigate how socioeconomic and racial conflicts were highlighted, understanding that cinema, even though it is a leisure activity, is not a neutral and passive medium, therefore, endowed with opinions and manifestations, whether favorable or not to politics. of the period lived, as well as highlighting the experiences of social groups neglected or marginalized by moralistic discourses.