Os "dois ofícios dos olhos": ver e chorar no cinema

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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 languagePortuguese
Title of host publicationPoética das lágrimas
Subtitle of host publicationolhares cruzados sobre textos e contextos femininos
EditorsIsabel Morujão, Geise Teixeira
Place of PublicationPorto
PublisherUniversidade do Porto
Pages207-216
Number of pages10
Volume1
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9789898970633
ISBN (Print)9789898970626
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2023

Keywords

  • Cinema
  • Crying
  • Tears

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