Livro e filme Batismo de Sangue: a formação da memória coletiva e sua importância histórica

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the book and the movie Batismo de Sangue. The book was written by Frei Betto and present the involvement of Dominican friars in guerrilla warfare against the military dictatorship, and the murder of Carlos Marighella. The film directed by Helvécio Ratton and co-script by Dani Patarra is based on the book, therefore presents these aspects of the military dictatorship by another prism. In this sense, this research is aimed to find points that resemble and distancing, to constitute the collective memory of the military dictatorship. As main theoretical support for this research is based on the theory of Jacques Le Goff (1990), which shows the relationship between history and memory. In addition to the construction of this work, it was necessary to deepen the concepts of literature and resistance, of Alfredo Bosi (2002); history and audiovisual, of Dennison de Oliveira (2009), among others. The study has as a result the differences in genres and languages constituted in each analyzed object. And underline the importance of literature and film to the contribution in the formation of a collective memory, which serves as support for historical studies.