Manifestações culturais na ditadura militar

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the repression and censorship of the country's cultural life that were intense at the time of the military dictatorship, particularly between December 1968 when the AI-5 was promulgated and at the beginning of the "slow and gradual" political opening process adopted President Geisel from 1975 onwards. Shortly after the coup, the military unleashed a strong crackdown only on sectors of cultural production that had some kind of link with popular movements politically organized, such as the Popular Culture Centers created by National Union of Students. He indiscriminately censored every type of work, attacked university life and severely affected the immediate fate of various segments of cultural production. In some cases, she could even conclude that she wished to establish a genuine "cultural void" which would in practice help to create a state of indifference among the masses towards the immediate fate of the country. In these circumstances, censorship may lead to the emergence of new expressive modes which, in some cases, become quite unique. In addition, the consumer public that was its great victim can create a strategy of decoding, which establishes a complicity between himself and the producers of culture, unacceptable, however, for the dictatorship.