Violência e representação

: desafios e estratégias em 48 de Susana de Sousa Dias

Abstract

What is it that a film, in which we don’t see any violent act at all, tells us about the representation of violence? Departing from a phenomenology of violence and from a discussion of its configurations in modernity in general and in the Portuguese Estado Novo in particular, this thesis approaches the question of the representation of violence by analysing the film 48 by Susana de Sousa Dias. For this purpose, it will discuss the documentary’s specific strategies of facing the discursive, psychological and ethical difficulties that the representative regime and the experience of the violence and the forms of torture in the prisons of the Estado Novo impose on the possibility of its representation, considering its modes of dealing with the blank spaces and incapacities of image and testimony.

Date of Award	15 Jul 2014
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Isabel Capeloa Gil (Supervisor)