2001/03/01 by José Gatti, Jose Gatti
Arts and Humanities · #Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies #Linguistics and Education Research #Literature, Culture, and Criticism
paper · pdf · doi:10.7275/democratic-communique.192
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What is the language spoken in Brazilian cinema?The link between Brazilian cinematography and Lusophony (Portuguese-speaking) seems obvious.The hypothesis behind these reflexions, however, takes as its departure point the fact that Lusophony is a multidimensional complexity, one which includes different modes of speech and goes far beyond the limits of the official language, be it from Portugal, Mrica, Asia or Brazil.Besides, the initial question may serve the investigation of other audiovisual media, such as television, and it can possibly help define the contours of a Brazilian spectatorship.Such definition, in its turn, can be useful for the research of those media, since it encapsulates a series of articulated phenomena: consumer and audience behavior, cultural identification and the focus of my attention here, reading strategies of audiovisual texts.These notes are gathered in three different sections: the first one deals with the presence of languages in international cinema; the second traces a history of the subtitling versus dubbing debate in