Abstract
Through film analysis and documentation of the reception of Macunaíma (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1969) and Tenda dos Milagres (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1976), we will evaluate how the debate on race and ethnicity was articulated in the field of Brazilian Cinema by its intellectuals after the coup in 1964. From an initial literature search on the subject, we chose to focus on the appropriation of the aesthetic achievements of Tropicalia by some intellectuals related to Brazilian Cinema. The goal of gathering films not so close in the same article is to evaluate the temporal effect on the role of intellectuals in transforming the debate about race and ethnicity in the field of Brazilian cinema. Thus, while Macunaíma was part of the "Tropicália moment", Tenda dos Milagres took the aesthetic gains of the movement, resonating later the shift in the role of intellectuals in the field of Brazilian Cinema.
Keywords
Brazilian Cinema; Race; Ethnicity; Macunaíma; Tenda dos Milagres