Representação da infância em documentários brasileiros: ser criança não significa ter infância

Abstract

This thesis aimed to research on the representation of childhood socialization modes in Brazilian documentaries from 2000 to 2013: A Invenção da Infância (SULZBACH, 2000), Que letra é essa? (ROCHA, 2004), Criança, a alma do negócio (RENNER e NISTI, 2008), Infância Incomum (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, 2012) and Mitã (MATTOS, 2013). We use the documentary as empirical basis for assuming that they would allow us valuable contemporary reinterpretations of Brazilian childhood’s conceptions and modes of socialization in different social, economic and cultural contexts. It is an anthropology study of cinema that uses cinema as a research object, in this case, to study the conceptions and socialization modes of Brazilian childhood. During the film analysis, it was made a deconstruction of the film narrative, then its reconstruction with some of its images, its many voices and the analysis of their representations of childhood based on some theoretical references to the subject.