Abstract
Taking into account Father António Vieira’s sentence about the fact that «only the eyes have two crafts: seeing and crying», the present essay seeks to interrogate the way crying is represented by cinema, the art of vision. For such an aim a number of different films is taken as example — Stromboli (1950) by Roberto Rossellini, Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott, Belle de Jour (1967) by Luis Buñuel, Belle Toujours (2006) and Palavra e Utopia (2000), both by Manoel de Oliveira, Tabu (2012) by Miguel Gomes and a brief reference to some other cases —, since in all of them tears present a decisive value in the economy of significance of the movie, although with variable symbolic meanings. Thus the paradox constituting the ontology of cinema, an iconic and temporal art which ultimately seeks the visibility of the invisible, can be better and more deeply understood.
Original language | Portuguese |
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Title of host publication | Poética das lágrimas |
Subtitle of host publication | olhares cruzados sobre textos e contextos femininos |
Editors | Isabel Morujão, Geise Teixeira |
Place of Publication | Porto |
Publisher | Universidade do Porto |
Pages | 207-216 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Volume | 1 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789898970633 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789898970626 |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2023 |
Keywords
- Cinema
- Crying
- Tears