Cine para todos: Imaginários e memórias do cinema no bairro Borboleta

Abstract

This dissertation aims to understand the process of creating sociability related to street cinema. Street cinemas were characterized by being rooms dedicated to the cinematic exhibition that had their doors facing the street. These theaters lived at their peak in the early decades of the twentieth century and eventually declined, especially from 1980 onwards. From then on, the cinema occupies the halls of shopping malls and shifts the core of the experience with urban space to that of capitalist consumer activity. In the city of Juiz de Fora, located in Zona da Mata in Minas Gerais, street cinemas were prominent both spatially and in relation to their influence on young people. The memories related to these spaces provide a picture of the cultural life of the city, as well as the identities and sociability they raised. In this research we used as a central object of study the memories of patrons of the Cine-Theatro Paratodos, cinema of the district Borboleta, former German colony. As the object studied in this research is, besides a street cinema, a neighborhood cinema, we are also interested in perceiving how cultural relations took place in a more peripheral space in comparison with the center of town. Thus, the theoretical discussion of this research works the concepts of cité and ville, using authors such as Sennett (2018), Certeau (1998) and Kuster and Pechman (2014); the act of moving in the urban fabric, as well as the relations between memory, identity and space, working with the works of Pallasmaa (2018), Corrêa (2009) and Halbwachs (1990); the relations between the cinema and the city of Juiz de Fora, in which the works of Musse (2008), Stehling (1979) and Ferraz (2010) are used as references. The research also seeks to reimagine the space of cinema through testimonials and graphic reconstructions of what were the interiors of the Cine-Theatro Paratodos. To work with the statements we used the Oral History Methodology based on the reflections of Thompson (1992) and Worcman and Pereira (2006). At the end of this study it was possible to observe how the cinema mobilized various sociability in the neighborhood and strengthened the bonds between the community and the space in which it operate