Tereza Trautman and Os homens que eu tive: a history on cinema and censorship

• Main Author: Ana Maria Veiga
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2013-12-01
• Series: Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual
• Subjects: Tereza Trautman, Os homens que eu tive, cinema, história, censura.
• Online Access: http://www.revistas.usp.br/significacao/article/view/71671

<p class="western" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US">Beyond politics, the moral censorship was widely practiced in Brazil toward films that contested the military patterns of conduct. In the context of erotic cinema, promoted by Embrafilme, a young director saw her dreams sink in 1973 with a censorship act. This article analyses the interdiction of the film </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"><em>Os homens que eu tive</em></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-US"> [the men that I’ve had], by Tereza Trautman, as a representative element of arbitrariness with its basis on moral and good habits, strongly emphasized from the military coup d’état.</span></span></span></p>