CINEMA SURDO COMO ARTEFATO CULTURAL: LINGUAGEM CINEMATOGRÁFICA E LÍNGUA DE SINAIS

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.28919020427

• Palavras-chave: Língua de Sinais; Cinema Surdo; Estudos Culturais; Linguagem Cinematográfica; Artefatos Culturais.

• Keywords: Sign Language; Deaf Cinema; Cultural Studies

• Abstract:

  This paper aims to investigate

  cinematographic language and sign languages,

  drawing a parallel between Deaf culture and

  the genre cinema as a cultural artifact. We

  thus conducted bibliographic research in order

  to set a dialogue between the Deaf trajectory

  and how it relates to cinema. Initially, we go

  back to silent films and its connections with the

  Deaf community as an aid to Deaf resistance

  against an audist society. We proceed to the

  current discussion on cinema studies about the presence of sound, the value of the speech, and the theorization on vococentrism.

  We then observe that Deaf cinema, as a potentially pedagogical and empowering

  production, presents cultural productions filled with intentionality. Our understanding

  is that movies entertain but also educate the audience by opening diverse readings

  (multidisciplinary contexts), enabling subjective perspectives and worldview, embedding

  power relations and ideologies, and acting a mean to self-affirmation and conversion of

  cultural centrality. We conclude that the use of movies with such themes if articulated

  with school context (especially under the bilingual perspective), is a multidisciplinary

  educational tool. Such findings allow the observation of social, cultural, historic and

  linguistic factors involved in the cinematographic language, which parallelled with the

  visual traits of sign language promote a new approach to bilingual education for the

  Deaf, its structure and resources.

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