"Reserved dictatorship": a psychosocial look between the scenes of an audio-visual production

• Main Author: Lilian Vegini Baptista
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) 2018-12-01
• Series: Revista de Ciências Humanas
• Subjects: Ditadura Militar; Audiovisual; Psicologia Social
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/revistacfh/article/view/49129

This paper presents the research results of the documentary "Reserved Dictatorship", which exhibits the memories of communist militant subjects in Joinville – SC, Brazil during the military regime (1964-1984). The main objective of this work is to look for possible readings of what the documentary shows us specifically about relations between movie and researchers/viewers, paying attention to the work aesthetic dimension. The methodological composition was based on Vygotsky's discussions about the aesthetic and on Carlos Ginzburg's principles of the index paradigm. We watched the work initially without worrying and without researching for details to be analyzed; later they were seen with the intention of "less listening and more seeing" as a way of engaging with the documentary beyond verbal language. Thus, it is stated that the details observed in between scenes compose the aesthetic dimension of the designated work, and they can generate inexhaustible and variable readings and receptions to every viewer