REALISM AND THE (NEW) REAL IN THE CINEMATOGRAPHIC IMAGE

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.5582232227077

• Palavras-chave: Realism; Cinema; Memory; Trauma; aesthetics

• Keywords: Realism; Cinema; Memory; Trauma; aesthetics

• Abstract:

  Our objective in this article is to deal with realism in cinema, or rather a new type of aesthetic realism in cinema. To give an account of our proposal, before discussing what is being called new realism, we will understand what realism in the arts means, from its first conception to, from there, understand realism in cinema and its different forms. In contemporary times, realism would no longer be an effect of representation, an attempt to represent a recognizable and believable reality, but an event of trauma, as an image of violence marked by the limit of what can and cannot be represented. We will develop, throughout the article, the relationship between film and spectator as a traumatic relationship and think, from the writings of Walter Benjamin, how this relationship affects the construction of our memory and the appropriation of our experience.

• Número de páginas: 15