Experiências de guerra: o relato do jornalista e os meios de reprodução técnica

Abstract

This research entends to accomplish an analisys of war narratives of journalists Euclides da Cunha, Joel Silveira, José Hamilton Ribeiro and Sérgio Dávila. At first, it has brought by the books that gather and condensate these authors' experiences altogether as war reporteres on the conflicts Canudos, World War II, Vietnam War, Iraque, respectively, to discuss the transformations in the narratives from a historical perspective. The basic theoric support concentrates on Walter Benjamin's ideas on the loss of experience and art piece's loss of the aura on the age of its technical reproduction with the crescent industrialization process of societies. Authors such as Paul Virilio and his approaches on communication media as true war machines, and Guy Debord and his interpretations on the precedence of the image in the so called “spectacle society” in social interactions, are studied along with the fore told journalist-authors textual production. Functioning as support to the analisys and the interpretation the reading operators gathered by Arnaldo Franco Junior were carefuly utilized. The Journalist, who has it in the communication media important instruments to his function compliance, did not get immune to the changes decreted by tecnological evolution of tecnical reproduction, influencing his writing with the sociocultural moment along with he acted and its consecutive war representation mentioned above.