Representatividade simbólica do Cine Santa Tereza: investigando as marcas distintivas de um cinema de rua de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

Cinema, as a leisure activity, needs to be understood as a form of expression that provokes the assimilation and/or construction of new ideas and knowledge, through the interaction between the viewer and the audiovisual work enjoyed. Although the school and the family are the main institutions responsible for cultural transmission and for the construction of taste in different social contexts, cinema can also contribute to this process. Cine Santa Tereza (CST), located at Rua Estrela do Sul n° 89, in the Santa Tereza neighborhood in the city of Belo Horizonte, is the only street cinema located outside the Center-South region of this municipality, and one of the few that count. only with public funds. This type of field, as mentioned by Pierre Bourdieu (2008), presents different forms of power relations, which, according to the author, can be divided into four categories: social, economic, cultural and symbolic. Considering these fundamentals, the objectives of this research are to understand the symbolic representations of Cine Santa Tereza through the power relations that intersect in this field, and to identify and discuss the distinctive codes present in the process of cultural transmission and construction of taste realized in this cinema. of street. The methodology followed a qualitative approach and included a bibliographic research on the investigated topic, in addition to conducting semi-structured interviews with managers of Cine Santa Tereza and with those attending this space, finally. The information collected had an interpretive analysis, with a view to identifying and discussing the symbolic representations of the investigated locus, as well as the power relations present in this field. Based on the theoretical framework used, the main results showed that despite the CST being a field still marked by class distinctions, its collaborators work with the aim of reducing these differences through cultural transmission processes, with emphasis on programming and projects elaborated in this space. The symbolic representations or the different codes present there are manifested through the cinematographic language, materializing the tastes of the agents involved in this field.