Mal dos trópicos

simbolismos da floresta como paisagem cinematográfica

Abstract

The article discusses comparative representations of the forest in film productions. The idea is to explore some symbolisms associated to forest space as landscape in cinema - notions of sacred environment, or of a "pure nature" opposite to the western idea of civilization, ultimately idealization of a paradise. Or in the opposite way, the forest as a place of unknown and threatening forces, scope of a logic that cannot be controlled by human rationality and its technologies, or even the forest thought as an environment capable of releasing potentialities and primitive forces that escape a rational ordering. As a theoretical contribution, we will use notes from Cosgrove (2008), Nancy (2005), Schama (1996) and Lefebvre (2011).