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Humor no cinema contemporaneo brasileiro: a producão, distribuicão e exibicão de comedias

Palermo dos Santos, Raphael dos
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7054-6426
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1626994687536366

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2021, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
This dissertation aims to analyze contemporary Brazilian comedies (1998-2020) and their commercial success in the domestic market. I argue that this success is linked both to changes in the film industry itself (in production, distribution, and exhibition) and to social, political, economic, and cultural transformations in Brazil in the last two decades. For these transformations, one of the main aspects was the social ascension of millions of Brazilians during the government of President Lula (2003-2011), when a “new middle class” emerged in the country. With greater purchasing power, these Brazilians began to consume more goods and services, in addition to spending more on leisure activities such as cinema. As a result, comedies have become the most consumed national genre, accumulating millions of viewers every year. In addition to the historical connection that audiences have with humor in Brazilian cinema, comedies currently enjoy more financial and artistic resources for their production and distribution, which puts them ahead of other cinematographic genres. On the one hand, new public funding laws emerged in 2006, which privileged the financing of commercial film projects. On the other hand, comedies have developed a very close partnership with television through Globo, the largest media conglomerate in Latin America. All of this was fundamental for the advancement of the national cinema industry, a process in which comedies had a great impact.
Laura Podalsky (Advisor)
Isis Barra Costa (Advisor)
233 p.
Film Studies; Latin American Studies
Contemporary Brazilian Cinema; Comedy; Film comedy; Humor; Cinema brasileiro; comedia

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  • Palermo dos Santos, R. D. (2021). Humor no cinema contemporaneo brasileiro: a producão, distribuicão e exibicão de comedias [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1626994687536366

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Palermo dos Santos, Raphael. Humor no cinema contemporaneo brasileiro: a producão, distribuicão e exibicão de comedias. 2021. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1626994687536366.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Palermo dos Santos, Raphael. "Humor no cinema contemporaneo brasileiro: a producão, distribuicão e exibicão de comedias." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1626994687536366

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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