Mazzaropi, um caipira-cangaceiro: encontro de culturas no cinema brasileiro

Abstract

Hoping to contribute to enlarge the discussions about the subject of the cultural intertextualidade, the objective of the present dissertation is to contemplate on the parody concept in the film O Lamparina (1964) of Amácio Mazzaropi dedicated to the representation in the social and cultural universe of the caipira with the satire of the cangaço films and about the historical illustration of the most famous cangaceiro Lampião. We will present the influences that passed over comedian Mazzaropi s road, searching to identify to personage caipira in its history lived from the circus-theater to the dimension as director, actor, producer and writer of their own films. We will discuss also some reasons of the critics' indifference, that they joined in the movement called New Movies. Basing on those studies this research moves in an interdisciplinary way through the languages History of the Culture and Cinematographic, presenting the encounter among culture; caipira and cangaceiro , in the way that they are expressed in the fiction condition in the film O Lamparina and in the historical references.